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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
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MAY FIRST TO EIGHTH

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN

Editors' Note

This volume is intended to preserve for the church the historical
material collected for the celebration of its Golden Jubilee. The
collection of facts and their organization for presentation involved an
amount of time and labor that deserves more recognition than a
single hearing. Such material soon vanishes unless it is put into
permanent form ever}- generation, and this volume is a fitting sup-
plement to the one that records the celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary.

The history of a great organization should he a cherished memory
and an inspiration. The memorj' bids us to appreciate those who
have wrought and to whom we owe a rich inheritance. The inspira-
tion bids us to emulate their labors and to pass on to those who
follow a still richer inheritance.

It has been impossible to record all of the interesting things said,
especially in those addresses that were more or less informal, but it is
hoped that the principal facts have been secured, and that the hearty and
loyal spirit of the Golden Juliilee has been preserved in this book.

To all members and friends of the church to whom this volume
comes, may it prove not only a pleasant reminder of a notable cele-
bration, but also an abiding stimulus to Christian activity.

HeXRV H. REI.FIELn

, Editors
John 'SI. Coulter

Introductory

The week of the Golden Jubilee Celebration was an unin-
terrupted series of successful meetings. The response in interest
and attendance was remarkable.

In 18S5 (April 2G-'29). during- the pastorate of Rev. Ed-
\vard C. Ray, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Hyde Park
Presbyterian Church was celebrated, and a memorial volume
was published.

Another twenty-five years brought the church to its
Golden Jubilee, and a celebration was planned, of which the
present volume is intended to be a permanent record. The
following committees were appointed:

644759

Golden Jubilee Committees

Henry V. Freeman
John A. Cole
Henry H. Belfield

John M. Coulter
Walter C. Nelson
Henry H. Belfield
John F. Gilchrist

George C. Lazear
Charles W. Bird

General

Walter C. Nelson
Charles ^V. Bird
George C. Lazear

Historical

Miss Elizabeth S. Stewart
Mrs. J. B. Williamson
Miss Mary E. Remmer

Program

Rev. Joseph A. Vance.

A. E. Coleman
James A. Ostrom
O. M. Powers

Robert Stuart
John A. Cole
Frederick R. Angell

Arthur H. Rugg
Thos. G. McCulloh

John M. Coulter
F. F. Bosworth
George M. Bard

Charles W. Bird

James A. Ostrom

Rev. Howard D. French

Edward P. Skene
i^'harles F. L.owoth

Publicity

Tliomas Madill
S. S. Dorwart

Music

Mis. l>inald Mcintosh
Mrs. H. H. Sessions

Welland F. Sargent
Edward E. Hill
William F. Cameron
T. M. Bates
H. E. R. Wood

Reception

Cliarles H. Sagar
Thomas J. Hair
Mrs. R. F. Cummings
Miss Caroline F. Smith
Mrs. Hamilton Bogue

W. F. Cameron
Wm. H. McSurely
John T. Richards

Mrs. J. F. Gilchrist
Miss Grace Coulter
Mrs. E. L. Beatie
Mrs. J. M. Coulter
Mrs. ,1 B. Williamson

Rev. Howard D. French
Samuel Fulton Beatty
Miss Mary Reed

Banquet

A. Miller Belfield
Fred A. Fielder
\V. P. MacKenzie

Ladles' Societies

Mrs. A. V. Powell
Mrs. R. F. Cummings
Mrs. W. F. Sargent
Mrs. W. C. Brown

Bible School

Ralph H. Rice
George Fairweather

Young People's Society

Miss Eloise Lockhart

Donald Mcintosh

Miss Madeline E. Lave

Artluir V. Lee, Jr.
William F. Fielder
W. T. McCoy

The above invitation was sent to all the present members of the
congregation, to all former members whose addresses could be
obtained, to former pastors, to pastors of the city, and to other
interested friends.

Program for Week

SUNDAY, MAY FIRST

10:30 a. ni. Historical Address
Mr. John A. Cole
Special Music
3:30 p. m. Neighborhood Fellowship Meeting
Short Addresses by
Rev. John R. Grosser, D. D.

Kenwood Evangelical Church
Rev. Charles Bayard Mitchell, D. D.

St. James M. E. Church
Rev. Herman Page, D. D.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Rev. Frank D. Sheets, D. D.

McCabe Memorial Church
Rev. Nathaniel Butler, D. D.

University of Chicago
Special Music — Choi-al Club
7:00 p. m. Young People's Society

"What the past holds for our young people'
Short Address — Edward T. Lazear

MONDAY. MAY SECOND

8:00 p. m. Young People's Social Evening
Given by
Young People's Society
Young Women's Bible Class
Reed Bible Class
Preparatory Bible Class
Mr. McCulloh's Class
Men's Bible Class

TUESDAY, MAY THIRD

3:00 p. m. Reception for Ladies

Under the auspices of Women's Societies of the Church

6:00 p. m. Men's Banquet

Chicago Beach Hotel

Judge Henry V. Freeman, Presiding
Short Addresses by
Rev. Galusha A. Anderson, D. D.
Rev. Hubert C. Herring, D. D.
Maj. James H. Cole
Mr. Hamilton B. Bogue
Prof. John M. Coulter, Ph. D.
Rev. Joseph A. Vance, D. D., Pastor
War Songs written by past members of this congregation

WEDNESDAY, MAY FOURTH

8:00 p. m. Communion Service
Officiating

Rev. Hubert C. Herring, D. D.
Rev. C. Harmon Johnson

FRIDAY, MAY SIXTH
THE ANNIVERSARY DATE

8:00 p. m. Congregational Gathering

Under auspices of the Women's Societies of the Church
Historical Address with Stereopticon

Mrs. J. F. Gilchrist
Five minute informal talks by former Pastors and Old Members
Music
Refreshments

SATURDAY, MAY SEVENTH

4:00 p. m. The Bible School

Address illustrated with Stereopticon
Refreshments

SUNDAY, MAY EIGHTH

10:30 a. m. "The Chunh for the Future"

Rev. Joseph A. Vance, D. D., Pastor
Special Music?
3:30 p. m. Fellowship Meeting
Addresses by
Rev. Jas. G. K. McClure, D. D.

Pres. McCormick Theological Seminary
Rev. Bdw. H. Curtis, D. D.

Woodlawn Park Presbyterian Cliurch
Rev. James Frothingham, D. D.

Stated Clerk, Chicago Presbytery
Rev. W. H. Wray Boyle, D. D.

Pastor, I>ake Forest Presbyterian Church
Rev. Edgar P. Hill, D. D.

Supt. Church Extension, Presbytery of Chicago
Special Music by Choral Club
7:00 p. m. Young People's Society

"What the future may hold for our young people "

REV. CHARLES F. BEACH
1 862-1864

REV. BRADFORD Y. AVERELU

1 865-1 86V

REV. DAVID S. JOHNSON, D. D.
1 867-1880

REV. E. C. RAY, D. D.
1881-1887

REV. HUBERT C. HERRING, D. D.
1894-1898

REV. JOSEPH A. VANCE, D. D.
PRESENT PASTOR
1899-

Sunday, May First

At tile morning st-rvit-t'. in charge of the Pastor, in addition to
the ordinary ijrograni. there was specitd music by the choir, and tlie
prayer was offered by Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., who may al-
most be numbered among tlie former pastors on account of liis
repeated ministry to tlie church.

The address of the morning was delivered by Mr. John A. Cole,
the senior member of the session.

Historical Address

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of this Church, the Rev.
David S. Johnson, D. D., preached an historical sermon. He
selected as his text these words from Ezra 5:16: "And since
that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it
is not finished." These words, so aptly chosen, are appropri-
ate for us on this fiftieth anniversary day. 'Tn building and
not yet finished" must ever be the condition of a living church,
for growth is the law of its life.

Today with great thankfulness and rejoicing we look back
together over the full half-century of years during which this
Church of Christ has been so graciously directed. There are
those present with us this morning who were members of the
little group who on the sixth of May, 1860, organized the First
Presbyterian Church of Hyde Park. As they recall that oc-
casion, how strange must seem the changes which these years
have wrought in Chicago, which then had but one-twentieth
of its present population, and in Hyde Park, then an almost
unbroken prairie !

One of our beloved members, Mrs. Hibbard, writes in this
way of those days: "Fifty years ago Hyde Park was a clus-
ter of scattered houses, less than a score, dropped down among
the oak trees. There was no store, no postofiice, no market,
and a single passenger car on the Illinois Central, three times
a day, was the only connection with the city except Purcell's
ox-cart, which served as an express to bring from the city
barrels of tlour and groceries. The one sidewalk, a board walk
on Lake Avenue, was fringed wath ferns and violets, wild
flowers and strawberries."

We of today may well revere the memory of the men who
stood firmly for the Christian Church when this great com-
mercial city was young. To Presbyterians belongs the honor
of having been first to hold religious services on the site of

Chicago, and to the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago that
of leading the glorious company of Christian churches now
established in this great metropolis.

The Hyde Park Church as first organized consisted of six-
teen members, eight men and eight women. Eight of these
came by letter from Presbyterian churches, five from Congre-
gational churches, and three joined on profession. While all
were, so far as we know, of New England stock, they repre-
sented the three great constituent classes from which the
membership of this church has since been mainly built up,
namely, the New England Congregational, the Scotch-Irish
Presbyterian, and the French Huguenot.

At this organization two elders were elected, Hassan A.
Hopkins and George W. Bowman. The latter remained a
year only and is now living in California, but the former served
the Church for thirty years.

Years of struggle followed this small beginning. Nour-
ished by the Presbytery of Chicago, and especially indebted to
Rev. Wm. H. Spencer of Westminster Church, it was two
years before the Rev. Charles F. Beach was called, in March,
1862, to become its Stated Supply. At this time a Board of
Trustees was elected, and to them was deeded the chapel
with the lot at the corner of Lake Ave. and 53rd St. Of this
chapel Mrs. Hibbard writes as follows: "The little white
chapel was built by Mr. Paul Cornell, and stood in a grove of
oak trees near the present site of the Hyde Park Bank, stand-
ing back from the street, which was merely a sandy country
road. There was no janitor or other official, and the building
was kept in order by the faithful care of families living near.
At that time there were nearly as many families belonging to
the Episcopal Church as to the Presbyterian, and by a friendly
agreement the church was occupied in the morning by the
Presbyterians and in the afternoon by the Episcopalians for
some years, until the latter were able to build for themselves."
At the end of two years' service Mr. Beach retired, and
again for eighteen months the church was without a leader.
Members of the church often read sermons for the morning
service, and Daniel H. Home was particularly helpful in this
way. Calls were extended to Prof. David Swing and to Rev. J.
B. Stewart, but without avail, imtil in November, 1865, Prof.
Bradford Y. Averell was ordained and installed as the first
pastor of the church. Of this pastorate beautiful memories
remain. His fine face and figure, his attractive voice and
manner, his earnest sermons and zealous solicitude for his

charge won hearts and strengthened both the membership and
the spiritual life of the church. But his work was cut short by
serious illness which rapidly developed. On July 12, 1867. he
passed away.

The bereaved church was again without a pastor for a
term of fourteen months. In the meantime the church had
gained an active and efficient helper in Charles A. Norton, who
had become an elder in 1866. He was a man of fine education
and noble character, who, so long as he lived, was devoted to
the interests of the churcli and its Sunday School.

At last, in October, 1867. the second pastor of this church was
installed. The Rev. David S. Johnson ,a graduate of Williams
College and Andover Seminary, came from the experience of a
seven vears' pastorate in the First Presbyterian Church of
Waverly, New York, and now entered upon a service which
was to continue for thirteen years. These were to prove very
eventful ones. The country had already passed through its
years of conflict in the Civil War, and its surviving soldiers
were returning north, again to take up their interrupted tasks
or studies. To many such, Chicago presented business attrac-
tions, and Hyde Park became the permanent home of many
distinguished men. This church received its share of them,
some of whom remain to this day, true soldiers of the cross, as
in their youth they were soldiers of their country. Such men
added not only strength and power, but some of them, at least,
brought a sweetness and gentleness of spirit unlocked for in
men who for years had faced the hardships and leaden storms
of war. But this little church and retired community, like
every other throughout the land, had been called upon for a
sacrifice of its youth. Curtiss Bogue, Charles Warren Everett,
and Leonard W. Hopkins, all members of the little Christian
community of Hyde Park, had been stricken while in the ser-
vice of their country. Of these, Curtiss Bogue was, as Dr.
Johnson relates, "the self appointed Samuel of the Lord's
house. He kindled the fires, and swept the floor. His voice
rang through the groves on his way to the chapel like a bell
calling to prayer and praise. He was among the first to an-
swer his country's call in the opening of the civil war." He
was killed when home on furlough in a railroad wreck that
made January 8, 1862, a day of woe to many Hyde Park homes.
His comrade Everett was an able officer, wounded in the
battle of Belmont and dying at the age of 22 years. Hopkins,
a quiet earnest boy, an only son, went forth from a loving
home to the rude trials of the camp. Stricken with fever,

THE OLD STONE CHURCH (AND INTERIOR)
ERECTED IN 1869

'"he yielded up his life — a fresh, sweet flower laid on the altar
of his countr}' and his Ciod." These names must never be
forgotten.

During Dr. Johnson's long pastorate he saw his church pass
successfully through many trials. The great Chicago fire not
only destroyed much wealth in his congregation, but greatly
increased the burden of debt under which it struggled. For,
early in 1868, it had been decided to build a new house of
worship. A building committee, consisting of Paul Cornell,
James Wadsworth, and Homer N. Hibbard was appointed.
Subscriptions were started and the ground broken at the corner
of 53d St. and Washington Avenue, in May, lS(i!). hi Julv of
the same year the corner stone was laid with impressive cere-
monies, in which Rev. Arthur Mitchell of the First Church and
Rev. James PL Trowbridge took prominent part. The "stone
church," stately and commodious, quickly rose to its com-
pletion and was dedicated on October 30. Rev. David Swing-
preached the sermon, and under the direction of Mr. C. M.
Cady, a highly esteemed member of the church and leader of
its music, an anthem was sung in parts by the entire congre-
gation. It was a great day and one of rejoicing, which marked
the beginning of greater zeal and spirituality in the church.
But the year proved to be one of intense activity in the bus-
iness life of Chicago. Thousands of buildings were being
erected in the city and the price of labor and building materials
became oppressive. With an architect's estimate of $30,000,
the actual cost of the stone church was $50,000, and debt
became an incubus that burdened the life of its pastor until
the end of his arduous pastorate. Strong helpers, however,
were raised up to share his responsibilities. Claudius B.
Nelson was installed as elder in 1867, and Erastus S. Williams,
Joseph N. Barker and Homer N. Hibbard in July, 1873. These
men were a tower of strength in those days of growth and
sacrifice. We have a church manual issued in 1873 which
shows a membership of 173, of whom 61 had united by pro-
fession, and of those coming by letter, 68 were from Pres-
byterian churches and 28 from Congregational churches.

How deeply the pastor and the elders felt their dependence
upon the great Head of the Church during these years can be
partly estimated from two events that followed the bewilder-
ing effect of the great fire. Pew holders could not pay the
rent, and pews were being surrendered. The trustees and
session, in joint conference, after seeking Divine guidance in
prayer, decided to change the financial plan and to depend

upon volunteer offerings for the support of the church, allow-
ing all to retain their pews. This was one event. The other,
which followed hard upon it, was the closer spiritual union of
membership in meetings for prayer and the manifestly revi-
ving presence of the Holy Spirit. From the New Year's Day
meeting, evening meetings were continued for three months,
and 47 persons of all ages, but largely children and youth,
were gathered into the church fold. There came also 22 addi-
tions from other churches, making in all 69 recruits to the little
band that had almost fainted because of the fierceness of the.
battle.

In 1876, when the financial cloud was still oppressive, Dr.
Johnson tells us that "a wind swept up suddenly and whirled
the spire of the church edifice clear over the roof and left it on
the east side, a heap of kindling wood." The next day was
Sunday. The pastor made a trembling appeal, and in fifteen
minutes the $1,300 required to restore the spire was all sub-
scribed. The quick and hearty response to every appeal when
made by the pastor or trustees of this church has been a
marked characteristic of this community. Never has it failed,
as the history of these fifty years abundantly makes evident.

In 1877 a determined effort was made to reduce the debt,
which was then the frightful sum of $43,000. By the great
liberality of many members, and by the sale of the valuable
business lot upon which the chapel stood, this debt was re-
duced to $20,000. Even then, after the sacrifices which the
year demanded had been made, the burden of the residue was
still too heavy to be endured. And upon no one did this
rest more heavily than upon the brave, warm-hearted pastor
himself. Broken down at last in health, he resigned his
pastorate in October, 1880, which, however, did not officially
close until February, 1881.

It was the darkest hour before the dawn of day, for on
January 30, 1881, by invitation of Geo. Willard, and without
notification, Mr. Edward Kimball appeared in the pulpit and
announced that he was there to clear off the church debt!
Consternation reigned in the pews, but before the day closed
it had been swept away by the subscriptions which followed
the appeal. It is pathetic, the word of that long-suffering
pastor, as he says : "that day begun in doubt ended with
triumphant praise. You answered to God with open hands,
and the debt vanished like the morning mist. At ten o'clock
in the evening it was gone. The Lord had turned your
captivitv and you were like them that dream." Like Moses,

he had gloriously led the church to the border of the land of
promise, but was not permitted to enter in. No heart was
more overflowing with joy than was his, or had a more com-
plete sense of answered prayer.

We rejoice to record the years of usefulness and the free-
dom from financial burden that afterwards fell to the lot of
this beloved pastor, as for fourteen years he served the Second
Presbyterian Church of Springfield, 111., and finally spent his
last years in the quiet of a country parish in Hinsdale, 111., and
in California. On April 17, 1903, he passed away. His
funeral took place from this church, at his own request, as
"the walls of it were built of stones from the old church."

The review of his pastorate must have given him much joy.
Spiritual blessings had crowned his labors and those of the
men and women whose leader he was. The Sunday School
had ever been the nursery of the church. Year by year the
children and 3^outh sought admission to its holy rites. In
the second year of his service, fifteen persons were added on
the profession of their faith. In 1871-2 ten of the older schol-
ars of the school joined the church ; in 1874 forty-seven ; and in
1879 seventeen persons came into church membership in the
same way. Seeing also the material prosperity of the church
at length assured, we can understand the fullness of his heart
when he said, "Let us give thanks !"

In 1878 two additional elders were elected. One of these,
Samuel West, after serving the church and Sunday School
very faithfully for seven years, was obliged by ill health to
seek relief in Colorado, where he is still living. The other,
George Stewart, was suddenly called to his heavenly home in
July, 1888, after ten years of constant service. He was greatly
beloved, a man of rare sweetness, great liberality, and whole-
hearted devotion to his Master's cause at home and abroad.

In June of 1881 Rev. E. C. Ray was installed as the
third pastor of this church. Coming from Hamilton College
and Auburn Seminary and a pastorate of five years over the
Third Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey, he was
still a young man, and came to us with unbounded enthusiasm
for the work in this western field. His sermons, delivered
without notes and with forceful eloquence, were scholarly and
practical. His fame spread and the audiences soon filled the
auditorium. His zeal awakened that of many, and every or-
ganization of the church was inspired to greater activity.
The benevolences of the church were greatly increased, not
only because of the attractive way in which all subjects of

appeal were presented, but also by the earnest insistence that
at least "the tithe" should be consecrated to God's Kingdom.
The subscriptions toward the debt were soon collected. Then
the new enterprise of building a manse was cordially under-
taken in accordance with the pastor's design, and soon com-
pleted as it now exists on the eastern portion of the church
lot. It is an attractive structure of stone and brick, and of
a style which compares well with the architecture of the pres-
ent church edifice.

In 1882 Hamilton B. ijogue, after a service as elder cover-
ing nineteen years, declined a re-election, and William A.
Olmsted and John A. Cole were elected to the eldership. In
1886 Charles H. Arms was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the removal of Samuel West from the city.

The six years of this pastorate were especially marked by
spiritual activity. Additions were frequent, and in one year
(1884) 49 persons joined the church on confession of Christ.
More noticeable perhaps were the applications from those who
for years had retained letters from home churches, which now
were rememl^ered under the faithful preaching of the earnest
pastor.

By the suggestion of the pastor, a member of the session
was appointed to the work of resuscitating the Sunday School
at Woodlawn. and from that day forward, under the fostering
care of this church, no Sunday was allowed to pass without
the school being called together, sometimes in a schoolhouse,
sometimes under a tree, or at times in a barn ; until at length
in 1885 a church edifice was built and a church organization
effected, to which many of the members of our church and
Sunday School were dismissed. Among these were James
Wadsworth and his wife, who were of the original sixteen who
in 1860 formed the Hyde Park Church. The W^oodlawn Pres-
byterian Church, from that day to this, has held high rank
among the sisterhood of Christian churches in this great city.

At Park Side a mission was founded, with a Sunday School
and preaching service, and a small chapel built for its use.
This property was afterwards transferred to another denomi-
nation that seemed to have special facilities for doing the
work in that locality. It was at this time also that the Hyde
Park Church sent out its first missionary to a foreign land.
Miss Sarah Wirt, afterwards Mrs. Peoples, was a graduate
of Oberlin and fitted by experience in city missions for the
wider field of Siam and Laos. The ladies of the church as-
sumed her outfit, and the sum required for her sustenance was

Claudius B. Nelson
George W. Bowman
Samuel West

ELDERS

Hassan A. Hopkins
Homei' N. Hlbbard
Erastus S. Williams

Hamilton B. Bogue
Charles A. Norton
Joseph N. Barker

provided by the church. In 1882 she left us for that distant
land, where for twenty-eight years she has labored faithfully
and successfully. Her letters stimulated the church to further
efforts, and at the present time no less than five missionaries
are wholly or in part supported as the representatives of the
Hyde Park Church on the broad arena of the Christless world.
Steady beams of light are flowing out from this church to help
disperse the gloom of dark places in the Laos, in Persia, in
China, in India and in Japan.

The prosperity of these years hastened their close, for it
was soon evident that the "stone church," so recently paid for,
was too small to meet the needs of the community. Two
plans were considered, that of a colony to found a second
church in the immediate vicinity, or that of a new church
edifice of adequate capacity. The latter was a startling alter-
native, and much reluctance was felt at engaging upon so
costly a task. In the meantime our pastor was urged to take
up a larger work in another State, and in November, 1887,
to the regret of all, he accepted a call to Topeka, Kansas.
We have rejoiced in the work accomplished by Dr. Ray in that
great State, and later as Secretary of the College Board of the
Presbyterian Church of America. It is to all of us a keen
sorrow that the state of his health does not admit of his
presence wnth us today. His affection and solicitude for this
church have never failed.

During the interval of one year which followed, the church
was favored by the very acceptable ministrations of Rev. Wm.
C. Roberts, D.D.^ and, as so often before in our need, of Rev.
Galusha Anderson, D. D., of the University of Chicago.

In October, 1888, Rev. W. W. Totheroh became the fourth
pastor, continuing in office until November, 1893. The neces-
sity for an enlarged edifice had by this time become fully
understood by all, and the decision was made not to colonize,
but to enlarge the church edifice or to remove it entirely and
build upon the same site. The building committee who were
entrusted with the details of the matter, after much consider-
ation, adopted the latter plan. A tabernacle was built for the
temporary use of the congregation at the corner of 53rd St.
and Jefferson Ave., and the work of demolition began. In
the meantime a very satisfactory architectural design had been
secured for the new building and a contract let for its con-
struction, provision being made for utilizing the old material.
The cost was $45,000. At this juncture the church exper-
ienced a great loss in the death of Wm. H. Ray (the Principal

of the High School), who had been for years one of the most
enthusiastic workers in the Bible school and in all church life.
It was largely due to him, as a member of the building com-
mittee, that the plan adopted was secured. He was a brilliant
man of great promise. His class has perpetuated his name upon
a memorial window in the Sunday School room, and by the sin-
gle word "service" has rightly characterized his beautiful life
among us.

In 1889 the new edifice was completed and dedicated with
appropriate ceremony, in which Dr. McPherson, Dr. Barrows,
and others took part.

In removing the old building it was found to be entirely
impracticable to rebuild the old organ, which had already
outlived its usefulness, t It was to the great gratification of all
that the announcement came from Walter C. Nelson that he
would provide a new organ in memory of his revered father,
Claudius P). Xelson. This instrument still remains to help
in every service of song. During these years, and particu-
larly in those of preparation for the great World's Kxposition
in 1893. there began to be a marked change in Hyde Park
territory. Hotels, apartment houses, and blocks of buildings
began to fill this quiet residence suburb, until like a wave
the city of Chicago engulfed it. These changes presented
many unusual opportunities for service b}- the several organi-
zations of the church and particularly by the Board of
Deacons.

In September, 1894, the Rev. Hubert C. Herring was installed
as the fifth pastor of the church. He came to us from Iowa with
Mrs. Herring, the daughter of John Woodbridge, who was al-
ways a friend and who had assisted at the dedication of the first
chapel in 1858. This pastorate continued until August, 1898,
during which time the church prospered. Among the lasting
results of these years is the establishment of the Mission Kinder-
garten, which is maintained in charge of skillful teachers for
the benefit of needy families in the neighborhood.

In March, 1898, a fearful calamity left our community in
mourning. Of Elders Olmsted and Arms it may be truth-
fully said that few^ men ever served the church of Christ with
more singleness of purpose or greater fidelity. They were
closely associated in business and in fullest accord in every
good w^ork. Mr. Olmsted was active in civic afifairs as well
as in the Bible School and Church conferences. Mr. Arms had
for years been the indefatigable servant of the church in the
offices of deacon and elder, and as superintendent of the Sun-

day Schot)l and teacher of adult classes. To these good men
at the same nu^nent came translation. "With a shout, in
the twinkling of an eye," they were summoned in a flame of
fire and "they were changed." A memorial window keeps
their precious lives in memory, lives based upon the Word of
God, lives that blossomed and bore fruit in beauty, lives led
by still waters and through green pastures upward to the hills
and to the City of God. All who knew these men knew they
wiere ready for the Master's call.

Much grief was felt in the church when Mr. Herring re-
signed and left our community, Init his useful life in Omaha,
and his later success in the leadership of the Home Mission
department of the Congregational Church throughout the
United States has l)een noted with great satisfaction.

In December. 18!)!). Rev. Joseph A. Vance, our present
pastor and the sixth in succession, came to us from the City
of Baltimore and from the Presbyterian Church South. He
was most cordiall}^ received, and he has found a wide field for
his genial and ardent nature. For ten years the church has
greatly prospered under his earnest leadership. When he
came he found a del:)t of $15,000. which had not been provided
for when the new church was built. This was disposed of by
a three-year subscription taken in connection with a black-
board exercise conducted by the pastor at a morning session.
Then came the enlargement of the main auditorium, which
had become too restricted. Forty per cent increase to
the seating capacity of the building was made at a
cost of $20^000. This sum was raised by the issuance of
church bonds, the redemption of which was to be met by the
income from a certain reservation of seats. Quickly following
this came the necessity of additional rooms for the growing-
Bible School. This was met by cash subscriptions, and a
very attractive addition to the Sunday School building was
erected on the rear of the manse lot at a cost of $4,500. The
four large rooms thus gained have made it possible to pro-
vide for the higher grades of Bible classes, which are very
flourishing and useful.

The Young Men's Bible Class was organized in this pastor-
ate, and under the distinguished leadership of Prof. John M.
Coulter has been very popular, having at present a member-
ship of 100. The oflficers of the class are elected annually.
Its special class benefactions are large, especially toward
"Association House," a Christian settlement in the north-
Avestern section of the city. For years the class has invited

two hundred or more boys from that settlement to Christmas
turkey dinner in the building. The total money collected and
given by our Bible school class for this settlement aggregates
between $12,000 and $15,000, since the date of its organization
in 1901.

Another unique organization is that of the Hyde Park
Men's Club. It embraces a membership by no means con-
fined to the church. It meets monthly in the lecture room of
the church, where it is addressed by distinguished speakers
upon live themes of civic interest. Its annual dinner is an
important event, and the club is recognized as the most suc-
cessful one of its kind in Chicago. It promotes harmony
among all classes of Hyde Park citizenship.

Another most interesting organization is that of the Young
Men's Preparatory Bible Class which has an enrollment of
over sixty young men from sixteen to twenty-one years of age.
The ordinary Sunday School class often fails to interest during
these years, but great enthusiasm attends the proceedings of
this class. The Young Women's Bible Class is another large
organization which was founded in October, 1904, under Mrs.
H. V. Freeman's leadership. It has now an enrollment of
fifty-six, and is conducted by Mrs. A. V. Powell.

Perhaps the most notable event of recent years has been
the adoption of the new "budget plan" for meeting the benevo-
lences of the church. So wide had these become that nearly
every Sunday-morning service was liable to be encroached
upon bv special appeals from the pulpit. This interruption
was especially distasteful to strangers, and it was determined
to make one appeal only, in the beginning of the church year,
providing for weekly or other payments and the distribution
of the full amount collected by stated percentages to each
benefaction. By the very efficient cooperation of the Board
of Deacons, this plan has been entirely successful, resulting in
an increased constituency of givers and in a larger total. The
growth of the church during this pastorate has been as fol-
lows : from other churches 781 ; on profession of faith 258 ;
deceased 83 ; dismissed 554 ; total present membership 938.

That so much has been accomplished within the past ten
years is a testimony not only to the wise and genial guidance
which the church has had from its pastor, but is also a tribute
to the loyal and persistent cooperation of the entire member-
ship. ]\Iore than ever it can be said of the Hyde Park
Church these brethren "dwell together in unity.'' From first to
last this church has been a kindly and neighborly association

Thomas G. McCulloh
Henry V. Freeman
Charles H. Arms

ELDERS

John A. Cole
George Stewart
Harvey C Olin

William A. Olmsted
John C. Welling
David J. Lindsay

of friends. Gossip and detraction tind no welcome here, but
appreciative words and helpfulness are ever forthcoming.

During;- these years also losses have come. From the
eldership we ha\e lost Ralph F. Boyle, who died within one
year of his election, Joseph N. Barker, David J. Lindsay, John
C. Welling", and Elisha C. Ware. Joseph N. Barker was for
years the senior elder of the ciiurch, having served in that
office for thirty years. Born in Kentucky, he was a worthy
representative of that sterling class of southern men and
women who have added so much to the culture and prosperity
of Chicago. No officer of this church has more clearly recog-
nized the responsibilities of his office or sought to discharge
them with greater fidelity. Strangers, the sick, and the needy
were the objects of his constant solicitude. In the darkest
days through which this church was ever called upon to pass,
he was the "(ireatheart" who took upon himself its sorest
burdens. Xo one can exaggerate the value of his consecrated
life to this community in which so many of its years were
spent. Homer N. Hibbard, for twenty-five years an elder,
passed away in November, 1897. His interest in every
feature of the church's life had been intense through all these
years. John C. Welling was for twenty-five years an elder
greatly beloved, and the true friend of the church in all its
activities. IDavid J. Lindsay and Elisha C. Ware so recently
among us, have left cherished memories in all our hearts.
Of the fourteen elders chosen before 1888, three are still living,
two of these in distant States. Of the nineteen chosen since
that date, three have died and two have left Hyde Park ; one
of these, Harvey C. Olin, to become Treasurer of the Home
Mission Board of the General Assembly.

In reviewing the history of this church during the past
fifty years, the helpful work done in its Sunday School has
been prominent. It was the first religious efifort made by the
little community in the first chapel. Paul Cornell and Curtiss
Bogue were its first leaders and James P. Root its first ap-
pointed Superintendent. Names very dear to this community
are those that follow in the list of succeeding Superintendents;
Homer N. Hibbard, Chas. A. Norton, George M. Bogue, S. P.
Farrington, Maj. J. H. Cole, Joseph N. Barker, Samuel H.
West, Fred H. Kent, Henry S. Osborne, Henry V. Freeman,
Chas. H. Arms, Thos. G. McCulloh, Harvey C. Olin, Arthur H.
Rugg, George C. Lazear and Samuel F. Beatty. Each of these
in turn has caught up the Sunday School banner of this church,
maintaining its splendid ministry and winning the aff^ectionate

regard of parents and scholars. Mention should also be made
of the long- and faithful service of Mrs. F. F. Bosworth, who
for eighteen years was continuously in charge of the Primary
Department.

This history also reveals the arduous toil which has been
thrown upon the able business men who have constituted the
Board of Trustees. Again and again have these been charged
with the details of extensive building operations which, with
restricted means, they have wisely conducted. Probably the
three buildings and the changes that have culminated in the
present church edifice have cost about $125,000. There have
been times also when much financial skill has been called for
in arranging for current expenses. Notable men have served
on this Board, some of whom, as Trustees Gilchrist, Sr., Ott,
Robinson, Welling and Rockwell, were taken from our midst
very suddenly. They have left a permanent memorial and
today are worthily represented by their successors.

To glance even hastily over these years without special
mention of the women of the church, whose cooperation has
stimulated and strengthened every part of its ministry, is
impossible. For this Jubilee week it has been decided that
these services can only be properly recognized in meetings
set apart for the purpose, and all will enjoy that more detailed
treatment of the subject which will be so afiforded. Among
the organizations in which their efforts have been efficient
is the Sunday School, especially in the Beginners and
Primary departments. The Presbyterian Hospital and Asso-
ciation House ; and of church organizations, there are The
Ladies' Aid Society, The Women's Foreign Missionary
Society, The Women's Home Missionary Society, The Study
Class of Foreign Missions and the Kindergarten.

The Young People's Society, organized in 1871, has been
a flourishing organization from the first. It is at present
actively engaged in mission work and maintains a Sunday
evening service, which is largely attended.

The character of Hyde Park, as at first built up, was such
as to present but few cases of want requiring the aid of the
Church, and for many years the Board of Deacons was not
heavilv taxed. Changed conditions in this territory have in-
creased their burdens, and of late years they find great oppor-
tunity for service in connection with the new budget plan
of church benevolences. It is to their faithfulness and the
diligence of the treasurer of their Board that its success has
been made possible.

Walter C. Nelson
Arthur H. Rugg
John M. Coulter

ELDERS

<^ Elisha C. Ware

Henry H. Belfield

Ralph F. Bogle

Welland F. Sargent

Edward E. Hill

The present church edifice, in which we are nieetinj^
today, certainly demands a moment's thouglit. Is it not a
typical outgrowth of Protestantism as shown in its architec-
ture? Not now. as formerly, is it sou,s;ht to embody the
reverence and godly gratitude of the community by an edifice
of costly splendor, but rather is the edifice sulx)rdinate to the
service of each individual spirit which constitutes the real
temple. This church edifice is therefore designed to afiford
helpful facilities for every function of an active church. We
have a large auditorium of perfect acoustic properties, a large
lecture and Sunday School room, many convenient class rooms
for Bible Study, serving rooms for the social entertainments,
a special place for little children, and ladies" parlors for all
occasions. Xo one is neglected in the provision which is
here made for spiritual service. We greatly rejoice as a
people in this building dedicated to the worship of our God.
Though of modest cost when compared with many other
church edifices, it seems to present an ideal liome for an active
membership.

One year ago this church made an impcjrtant forward step
in the appoinment of Rev. Howard French to be its Assistant
Pastor.

Our present representati\'es in the foreign field are the
Rev. A. K. Reischauer in Tokio, Japan ; Mrs. Sarah Wirt
Peoples at Nan, Laos ; Mrs. Loretta C. A'anHook, Tabriz,
Persia; Miss Juniata Ricketts. Hangchow, China; and Mrs.
D. J. Fleming, Lahore, India.

But dates and names, events and records, do not constitute
a history of the real Church. These are but its outward
manifestations. Spiritual influences ceaselessly radiate from
every Church of Christ. Human hearts, consciously or un-
consciously, are moved by them. To those who seek the
Way the fears and sorrows of life here lose their prevailing
power. What is the value to one human soul of that which
effects a change of aim, a consecration of will, and secures a
faith that overcomes the world? What the value to a com-
munity, of influences that not onlv bind together l)ut fuse in
one its diverse elements to a harmony of feeling, purpose and
sympathy? What institution but the Church of Christ can so
transform society? Indeed, this unifying power is the only'
hope for the world amid the rivalries of the nations. If the
masses of oriental lands are not brought into heart sympathy
with the Occident, civilization must perish before their re-
sistless onset when once they realize their power. The

Christian Church can change the heart cf nations, as its
history proves. The lines of the poet, with a word of change,
express this great truth :

"But there is neither East nor West

Nor border, nor breed, nor birth,
WHien Christian men stand face to face.

Though they come from the ends of the earth."

This is the truth that Jesus saw^ afar as He prayed "that
they may all be one."

"In building and not yet finished." Let us take courage
for the years to come, and send forth from the Hyde Park
Church strong beams of Hght that shall hasten the coming of
the day when "all shall know Him from the least to the
greatest."

During- the afternoon of Sunday a notable "neighl)orhoofl and
fellowship meeting" was held, repi'esentatives of other denomina-
tions in Hyde Park l)rins;ins words of greeting, congratulations,
and Christian fellowship. It was evident that the churches of Hyde
Park are not so much representatives of different denominations, as
Christian organizations working together in a common cause. Of
the addresses which follow it is possible to give only a summary,
selected from stenographic notes.

Address by Rev. John R. Grosser, D. D.,
Pastor Kenwood Evangelical Church.

I bring to you and your honored Pastor the congratula-
tions of the Kenwood EvangeHcal Church and my own con-
gratulations. Some years ago. for a little time, I visited in
Florida and spent a Sabbath in St. Augustine, and I
worshipped in the Memorial Church there. There was in
the pew with me a gentleman whom I did not know. I do
not know his name now, but we enjoyed that service together,
especially the musical part, for some of you may know that
the church is wonderfully well appointed for music. The
next day I met the same gentleman upon a steamer in the
river, and as we were standing together I made a remark
about being at the church the day before, and I said that
the church was well appointed for music, but it was a dismal
failure as a place for preaching. He hesitated for a moment,
and then he said, "I don't know as that makes any difference,
for about all there is to a church service in these days is the
music." And so, my friends, as I look at this array of pastors
before me, it seems to me that before we get through with
our sermonettes you will be led to say there is something
more to these services than the music.

You are celebrating your fiftieth anniversary. Bismarck
said "the first fifty or eighty years," I have forgotten which,
"were always the pleasantest of a man's life." Now that de-
pends on how these years have been lived. You have all
heard the old story about the nervous woman, who asked
the conductor with a great deal of solicitude, as they were
starting down from the top of Mt. Washington, "where would
we go if this cable should break?" "That all depends," he
quickly replied, "on how we have been living." This church
has been living well. It is now fifty years old. This seems

like a long time, nearly as old as the Pastor, or some of these
brethren here. I congratulate you on wearing the crown of
early manhood, and I also congratulate you that you are
located upon such magnificent vantage ground in this great
city.

I heard some laymen preach not long since. I have heard
quite a number of sermons from laymen. I am inclined to
think they preach better than preachers do. This was at a
banquet and they had subjects assigned. A doctor had the
subject "What I would do if I was a business man"; and a
business man was to discuss the question "What I would do
if I was a doctor"; a lawyer was asked to say "What he would
do if he was a minister." The lawyer was Judge Sears. He
said, if possible, he would not be a foreign missionary, al-
though he believed thoroughly in foreign missionary effort.
He would not be a settlement worker, though he believed in
that. He would not be the pastor of a rural church, though
he believed in the far-reaching influence of the rural church ;
but he would be, if he could, the pastor of a church located
in the city, where the young men. business men and profes-
sional men, full of promise, were located. This is exactly
the position of this church, for he said "these young men
would soon be a mighty power in the community, and it
would be worth while to direct them in the right way." Now
Judge Sears has the more modern conception of the church.
He would not think of the church as a hospital. So often
the church has been referred to as a hospital where there are a
great number of in\alids and a few overworked persons min-
istering unto them, but he would think of the church as a
force and an army, where each man was expected to do his
duty ; and because the church is a force, it should do something
toward giving tone and character and flavor to society. I like
that idea. Some of us are about ready to put up over the
door "no admission except on business." One very efficient
pastor asked the new member "what is to be your specialty,
what phase of church work are you going to put your hand
to?"

I rejoice in the prosperity of this church, and I rejoice in
the beloved relationship, the sweet and effective relationship,
that exists between the pastor and the people. You are
actuated by one spirit, so that you can stand in this community
reproducing the life of Jesus Christ, giving character and
efficiency to this community, and through this city and
throughout the whole world.

Address by Rev. Charles Bayard Mitchell, D. D.,
Pastor St. James M. E. Church.

I am deeply grateful to the program committee who have
made it possible for me to come. I am glad to be here. 1
feel honored that I am permitted to stand and speak a word
of congratulation to this splendid church, for what it has been
doing and for what it is.

Fifty golden years! The prosperity of one church in the
community is that of every other church. The strength of one
pastor is the strength of all. Here on this corner this church
has stood for fifty years proclaiming its glad evangel and is-
suing forth its splendid influence. The glory of this church
has been the glory of all the churches, and every church in
this part of the city has gained something of its strength and
splendor from what this church has been doing, and all of the
pastors in this section of the community feel strengthened
and more firmly intrenched in the work because of what this
pastor has been doing and is doing. The real truth is the
Church of God is a unit, and no one part of it can be hurt
without all the other members feeling the sword ; and no one
can get honor and win success without strengthening all the
others. The da}^ has gone by when the kingdom is to be
regarded as a divided kingdom.

I am very glad I was not born when my father was. He
was a Methodist minister in eastern Ohio and western Penn-
sylvania. There was not the happy relationship existing be-
tween the churches then that exists today. I have heard my
father say that in his early days Presbyterians would no more
think of letting their children go to a Methodist revival than
they would let them gO to the circus. My father said that in
his early days he never thought of inviting a Presbyterian
pastor into his pulpit ; and a Presbyterian pastor would no
more think of inviting a Methodist pastor into his pulpit than
he would think of flying. There was a great gulf fixed. My
father did not regard any young minister equipped for his job
until he could "lay out" the Calvinists. He was not fit to be
a Methodist preacher until he was able to carry on a debate
with his opponents. Every minister was sort of a Benjamin-
ite. He was supposed to go out with his hand against every-
body and fight for his position. I thank God that we are not
expected to carry on that sort of warfare any longer. I never
had a debate with a Calvinist in my life ; I never had a debate
with a minister of any other denomination. I never heard of

such a thing in mv day, or experienced this unseemly condi-
tion that existed in the day of my father. Now we are on
friendly terms. The real truth is you cannot tell, when you
go into a modern church, unless you have read the sign on the
outside, whether you are in a Methodist or a Presbyterian
church. We preach the same glad evangel, we are doing the
same work, we have come together in the history of the
church. I am glad I am alive today. I am glad I have lived
long enough to see the day when Protestants present a solid
front to the world.

The truth is that the Protestants, already bound together
by the bond of love, are more a unit in the United
States today than are the Roman Catholics, and especially is
this true since we formed the Federation of Churches. Today,
there are ;5o I'rotestant bodies of America bound together,
16,()00 ministers and nearly 20,000,000 communicants. These
are bound together by a bond that is not simply sentiment.
The Federated Council of the Churches of Christ in America
is just as much a part of the Presbyterian Church as is the
Presbytery or your own local Session. It is recognized by
your church, its oflficers are the friends of your church as they
are of mine ; and now that these great Protestant bodies are
bound together, Protestantism is no longer a rope of sand.
We have an organized institution, and when Protestantism
wishes to speak on any great question it can speak with as
much solidarity as can Rome.

We are united, and the church that worships here and
the church that worships at 46th Street and Ellis Avenue are
practically one. We belong to the same great Protestant
force, and we are facing the same situation, and it is a glorious
thing. Not since the days of Martin Luther has Protestantism
presented such a solid phalanx under the leadership of our
common Lord. It is a great day in which we are living, and
we Methodists have a right to be in this church this after-
noon, and all who belong to the Body of Christ have a right
here. It is a part of our Father's vineyard, and we are here to
congratulate you. We feel that your victory is ours, and we
rejoice in it. Every good thing we hear of the Hyde Park
Presbyterian Church shall make our church glad, and every
honor that comes to your highly honored Pastor will warm
our hearts, and make us glad that a man of God stands in
this splendid place. W^e congratulate you and hope you will
go on and on until you come to your centenary, and I do not
see any signs of decrease of virility.

George C. Lazear

A. E. Coleman

A. Stewart Baldwin

ELDERS

C. F. T.oweth

E. H. Bingham

S. S. Dorwart

Samuel F. Beatty

Charles AV. Bird

Frank F. Bosworth

When a man gets to be tifty, he says he is g'oing over the
top of the hill, down on the other side ; but as a church you are
stronger now than ever. What a splendid virility you have !
You are starting in on the second fifty years strong;er than on
your first. It reminds me of the old man who was an optimist.
He had just turned his hundred years, and he met a hollow-
eyed, hollow-cheeked, lantern-jawed pessimist. "Well, old
man, your race is nearly run!" "I don't know about that; I
don't know about that." "Well, you don't expect to live very
much longer?" "I don't know about that; feeling- pretty
good." "W^ell. you certainly don't expect to live another hun-
dred years?" "I don't know about that; started on the second
hundred a g;ood deal pearter than I did on the first." So you
start on the second fifty a good deal "pearter" than you did on
the first fifty. God bring you a splendid harvest, and a splen-
did victory and reward !

Address by Rev. Herman Page, D. D.,
Pastor St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

I am \-ery sorry that the dear old Rector Emeritus of St.
Paul's could not have been here to bring his greetings in per-
son. And yet 1 am glad he was called away, that the duty
and privilege does not come to him, because it devolves upon
me. and it is one of the happy moments of my life to come here
this afternoon and extend to you not only my own personal
congratulations, but those of my congregation as well.

As a previous speaker has said, we live in a very happ}'
day. It does mean a great deal that we of the different de-
nominations of Christ's army can come together and sit on
the platform this afternoon. You know it is not so many hun-
dred years ago that the Episcopalians and Presbyterians could
not Ifitch up together, because one of the problems was
whether vestments should be worn, and another was the read-
ing of the Psalms aloud ; and it seems almost impossible to us
that men could have fought and separated themselves over the
things that did separate them. We certainly do live in a hap-
pier time, and it is a happier time because we are not so much
interested in platforms and creeds. We are too busy here in
Hyde Park doing the Lord's work to think much about the
formula. It is a happy thing to live in a day when the em-
phasis is on the son who said he was unwilling to obey his
father's behest, but went out in the vineyard and did the
work. It is a happy thing to live in the time when we recog-

nize the man or the woman who docs something- as better
than he who says something. And when we are all of that
mind, we need have very little anxiety about church unity, if
we will only do the Lord's work. There is plent}^ of it right
here in this great city, and if we do it as w^e should, we will
not have much time to bother about the cjuestion of coming
together in one great organization.

And as 1 stand here this afternoon, may I express my
conviction that nothing would be more unfortunate than if we
came together in one great organization ? The world has not
quite learned the lesson of great charity. The day has not
vet come when we can all look with charity and tolerance upon
every question and opinion. If Dr. Vance could persuade some
of his committee that it was a good thing to bring a boy
choir and altars and candles into this church, I wonder how^
the people would feel. T venture to say there would be an
exodus, and I am sure that if I were to change our order of
worship, and substitute the extemporaneous prayer and take
away the candles and vestments, there would be consterna-
tion in my church.

We could not come together at the present time if we
tried. When it comes to uniformity, nothing could be more
unfortunate. There are these differences, and it would be a
strange attitude toward God if we should feel that these dif-
ferences do not stand for anything. We do not believe that
God has allowed men to think along these different lines sim-
ply to have division. We are w^orking out this great prob-
lem. It is the problem of democracy, how^ men of different
attitudes and different likes are going to work together in
the House of God.

I am glad to come here as one representing a church that
stands for dift'erent things from what the Presbyterian Church
stands for in a superficial way, and I am glad there is another
organization working for another Church of Christ that stands
for something different. You do not believe that I believe my
church represents all there is to be known about the w^ay of
carrying on God's kingdom ; that all we have in that organ-
ization is all there is ever going to be. If there were not
other organizations doing things in a different way, and so
often doing them in a far better way. what w-ould become of
us? And so from the bottom of my heart I thank God for
the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church.

There has been some talk about growing old. I remem-

her when Phillips iSrooks delixered the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary address at the old Boston Latin School, he spoke
of the fact that it was true of the really great institution that
it never grows old; and I remember another phrase he used
in that great oration, that it was a splendid thing to be born
in the morning. And when we look out on this community, I
remember that the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church was born
in the morning of the life of this community, and it has taken
the lead and grown up and become large and strong, even
as this community has grown from a little rural community
and become a part of the city. We can all thank God that this
institution Avas born in the morning, and because it has kept
close to Christ it has that i)ower that keeps an institution from
ever growing old.

Address by Rev. Frank D. Sheets, D. D.,

Pastor McCabe Memorial M. E. Church.

It would be easy and delightful to devote the eight minutes
allotted to me to a eulogy of Presbyterianism. But I will not
do it. Dr. Charles Seymour Robinson once contributed to a
little book, entitled "Why I Am What I Am" the article "Why
I Am a Presbyterian." He was very competent to speak, for
he loved your Zion. Among other things he said in answer,
"Because I believe with the unbroken conviction of my entire
life that this church is the nearest to the Scriptural idea of
an evangelical church that there is on the earth, and I am sure
it is the one in which I should be the happiest and most useful
till I die." Methodists, Episcopalians, and Baptists here will
not mind it if you Presbyterians say sotto voce "Dr. Robinson
was right." Of course he was. And the real sw^eet thing about
it all is that we non-Presbyterians say just the very same
thing with the very same emphasis about our denominations.
Isn't it a truly glorious consummation that such is the fact?
Here we are today of "what-not" denominationalism, bringing
greetings of fellowship to you Presbyterians, and this too, I
am sure, without one whit of jealousy or one bit of despair.

The fact is. my friends, we evangelical folk are one in the
essentials. And the essential things in men are the things
they hold in common, not the things they hold separately.
Therefore, on this Sabbath afternoon, whatever the escutcheon
of our denomination, we have inscribed upon it Presp.vteriax
for today.

Need 1 remind you that we have been working in you and

with you since that liour when a congregational vote named
you Presbyterian? We are glad that so much of your good
blood in the many wives of your church households and in
the numerous men of your church homes was drawn from the
spiritual veins of Methodist fathers and mothers. Of course
your success was certain. It required no prophetic gift to
foretell it. We are a proud mother today because our denomi-
national children have not been traitors to their faith while
marching in the regiments of your army. They are good sol-
diers, whether their orifiamme is borne by John Calvin or
John Wesley.

We are glad that the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church
rejoicing in tlie strength of its years, has become a
citadel of the faith, a dominant local force for right-
eousness and a Avorld-gospel propagator. It would shame
you to keep this half century anniversary of your genesis
had you not become what you are. For what you have
done and are doing will bring inspiration to what we do
or ought to do. The children of the faith round about
always look up to the parents for the word of the Spirit and
for the example. Everything you become and everything you
do that contributes to the regnancy of the Kingdom makes it
easier for us, and hastens the cjuicker enthronement of the
Lord of lords. We congratulate you today that you are so
masterful by the assets of your members and by your wealth.
It all spells opportunity and responsibility. "A stick might fit
a hole, or a stone a hollow, by accident. But a key and a
lock are both complex. And if a key fits a lock, you know it
is the right key." In just a word, the Hyde Park Presbyterian
Church is the key that has fitted the lock of the Hyde Park
neighborhood. Therefore, it is the right key and we are glad.
All I have said seems so cold and distant. I wish I could
bring you our hearts, warm and beating, that you might see
written thereon, as in letters of fire across some vesper sky,
their love and all good wishes. Since I cannot do this, I am
sure you will receive me as the accredited messenger from
the AlcCabe Memorial Church. For it. I speak in conclusion:
We are glad that we are in Hyde Park, because you are
here. W^e are not "moving soon" because of our church
neighbor. We are glad that we think your stand for every-
thing that is watermarked by the Divine will. It makes our
ideals seemingly realizable. W^e are glad that we may be
counted co-laborers with you. We are not ashamed of our
company. We are glad for the ages of struggle and sacri-

fice, hope and triumph you have written. They enrich our
heritage. We are glad that at fifty you are not senile or
blase, emasculate or moribund. You implant courage in us.
We are glad that "church attachment" with you has nt)t
gone with the "breaking down of the barriers of sectarianism."
You cause us to love our church. We are glad that you
verify the mission of the Apostolic Church. It makes doers
of us.

And now we look toward the future transfigured by your
resplendent past and your joyous present, with the wish and
prayer that the fifty years to come may find yon "diligent in
spirit, serving the Lord" ; a mother bountiful in the largess of
your ministry, an almoner of loving mercy, a conserver of
Christian unity, the creator of splendid manhood, the servant
of "One who is your Master, even Christ." In the name of
the McCabe Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, I bring
to the Pastor and to the Members of the Hyde Park Presby-
terian Church heartiest felicitations and a thousand good
wislies.

Address by Rev. Nathaniel Butler, D. D.,
The University of Chicago.

First of all, for the church of which I am a member,
and for the university in which we are all concerned, I
want to oiTer our very best congratulations and best wishes
and God-speed, for the time has come in the history of
this church when its name is known throughout this city
and beyond the bounds of the city. We know of your splen-
did past and splendid ])resent. You are a stimulus to us all,
and we thank God for this condition of things.

Men of my time of life can remember a period of years
very difTerent from this idea of fellowship. My father was
a Baptist minister in the state of Maine. My father was more
imbued with the sj^irit of fellowship than most men of his
day. I remember when he started for church each Sunday
morning, he would always gather a handful of flowers to be
left with the Catholic priest to be placed on the altar. That
was many years ago, but in spite of that example, which I
always remembered, I got the intellectual attitude which
many of us assumed in those days, and which has been described
here this afternoon. I remember perfectly well believing that
God was more interested in the Baptists than in any other
body of people, and I think that is vv'hat we all felt about our

own body. Just why God had spared the other bodies, I did
not know, but I was sure he was doing his own particular
work with the Baptists.

We are wondering today how the attitude has been so
radically and totally changed, and I think the answer is this :
World emphasis in our time has shifted from theology to re-
ligion. Questions of theology on which we group ourselves
divide, but religion is a great common interest, a thing we
•do not learn but which is born with us like the social instinct,
the desire to be with our kind. Religion is a thing common to
us all, and as we emphasize religion and not theology fellow-
ship has become inevitable. In the presence of those here I
speak with diffidence, but I think we should all agree that the
great purpose of religion is to keep the right relation with
God and our fellow men. That is the one thing upon which
we all agree, and we may define the function of the church
to be the promise of anything and everything that can better
human life and bring men and women into right relations
with each other and with God ; and when we act on that basis,
of course fellowship is inevitable.

Our fellowship is the fellowship of a great army, in
which there are companies and divisions ; but the battle
will not be won by the first or second regiment, but by
each one shouldering his proportion of the responsibility.
God's work is not being done by Baptists, Methodists, Episco-
palians, Presbyterians alone, but by all working together in
the group in which our lot is cast. I doubt very much if
denominational groups could be made if they did not exist,
but I agree with Doctor Page that we could not dispense
with them, for we were born in them and grew up with
them, and God has given each of us a certain thing to do.
We see you doing your work, and we will go oiT in another
place and do our part in the common service, and thus Chris-
tian history moves in a circle. We begin with Jesus Christ
and we go back to Him at last, and the circle is complete
when we become one with the Father.

I bring also sincerest congratulation on the part of the
university. We have reason to be glad that this church is
so strong. Some of our own strong men are your members,
and you embody what we believe is the great modern idea of
education, not learning alone, but intelligent religion as well.

A great church like this is a benefit to the city. Our
homes are safer, our children are safer, our prospects are
brighter. It is a great civic institution. But when we turn
to the great laymen's missionary movement and the great

conc|nest of Christ, and see how little we have done in coni-
parison with our resources, in comparison with what we can
do. and see what has been accomplished by our little, and
then take account of our great reeponsibility, it is not simply
a matter of imagination that if we would only stand together,
each taking our proportionate share of responsibility, the pros-
pect of evangelizing the world in this generation would seem to
be almost an easy thing to do. It can be done, it must be done.
If the University and the Hyde Park Baptist Church were to
send you a message in any words of scripture, it would be this,
"The Lord increase you more and more, you and your children,
and may God give all of you, each in his place, to know what is
his work and to do it. and that men may know how to take the
things of Jesus Christ and apply them in every phase of life."

WASHINGTON AVENUE ENTRANCE

THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY

On Sunday evening the Young People's Society held a special
meeting, in charge of the president, Miss Alice Lee. The Pri-
mary room was filled with old and new members, anxious to
hear of the history and growth of the society. After the usual
song and prayer service and Scripture reading. Mr. Edward
Lazear gave an outline of the history of the societ^^ which was
in substance as follows :

Young People's prayer meetings were held in this church on
Sunday evenings as early as 1871. In 1872 the Young People's
Society was formally organized, but in December 1886 was
changed to a Cliristian Endeavor Society. The meetings were
conducted according to the formulas of that organization : but
the activities of the Society continued much as before.

The report of the "Lookout Committee" for 1887 shows 55
active members who had signed the Endeavor Society pledge,
31 associate members who had conscientious scruples against
signing it, and an average attendance of lOo. The membership
and the interest continued to increase, and in 1890 it was thought
wise to form a Junior Endeavor Society.

The first recorded work of the C E. Society was the removal
of a debt of $125 on the grand piano, easily accomplished; but
missionary work was the ])revailing thought, and when the
Christian Endeavor Society of Chicago sent out is first mis-
sionary. Miss Jennie Coleman, a member of this Society, it con-
tributed $50 a year to her support. The Society, among its
other labors, collected good literature for distribution among the
prisons of the state.

In 15)01 the Society returned to its previous plan of organiza-
tion and resumed its former name. While this change resulted
in a slight decrease in membership, the missionary work has
inci-eased to a remarkable degree. In 1905 the Society pledged
$400 a year for the entire support of one of its much loved mem-
bers. Mrs. Elizabeth Cole Fleming, who became a missionary
in Lahore, India. This sum has been regularly raised by the
Society, partly by donations from different departments of the
Bible School, partly by entertainments, partly by subscriptions
from the young men of the Society.

Perhaps the most marked and beneficial result obtained by
this organization has been the development of Christian charac-
ter in its own members, evidenced by their becoming strong and
persistent workers in Christian and Philanthropic fields.

Monday, May Second

Young People's Social Evening

INIonday evening- was assigned to young people's organizations,
not merely as a social occasion, but also for brief reports. The six
organizations represented were brought togetlier socially for the
first time, and the committee in charge arranged for a" most at-
tractive evening. The more formal part of the program during
which the various organizations reported through their representa-
tives, was in charge of Mr. Ralph H. Rice, president of tlie Men's
Bible Class. Summaries of throe of these reports have been ob-
tained for publication, and are presented below. The Preparatory
Bible Class, organized under the very efficient leadership of Mr.
Merton Robbins, and developed by him into a very active organiza-
tion, is unfortunately not represented by a report; and the same is
true of Mr. McCulloh's Class. The history of the Young People's
Society had been given the previous evening, so that that organiza-
tion was not represented Monday evening in the formal part of the
program. The reports of the three remaining organizations are as
follows :

The Reed Bible Class.

In 1906 nine girls under tlie leadership of Miss Mary Reed
organized a Bible Class, with a tentative constitution and the
temporary name of the Reed Bible Class. The class, made up
of girls over fifteen years of age, had as its aim the study of
the Bible and the helping of as many poor children as could he
reached. This aim has been remarkably w^ell carried out. The
girls have completed a study of the life of Christ and a brief
study of the early Old Testament history, and have begun a
study of the history of the early church under Miss Coulter,
during Miss Reed's absence in Japan. Besides materially help-
ing many poor or sick children at Christmas and at other
times, the class has organized a girls' sewing club. This club
has been meeting every Thursday for over a year, and is still
in a very flourishing condition.

Until 1908 the class grew very slowly but steadily. In the
fall of that year Mr. McCulloh's class of twelve girls were ad-
mitted. After this addition the class grew even more rapidly,
and now the enrollment is 47, with an average attendance of 30.
With the growth of the class came increased activity. Besides
doing much charity work, the girls have also had several pleas-
ant social affairs and entertainments, often in conjunction with
the Preparatory Bible Class.

During the four years of its life, the class has developed
from a simple organization with a chairman, secretary, and
treasurer, to a complex organization with president, vice-

president, secretary, treasurer, and four committees of great
importance — social, membership, room, and finance. In the
spring of this year (1910) a regular constitution was drawn
up. According to it the class, called the Reed Bible Class,
is to be made up of girls from 16 to 21 years of age; after 21,.
the girls are considered alumnae. Thanks to Miss Reed, a
permanent organization has been formed, which hopes to be-
come a real influence for good in the church.

Young Women's Bible Class.

The nucleus of this class consisted of the members of a Bible
class taught by Mrs. Henry V. Freeman. In October 1904. a
constitution was adopted and officers were elected. The first
president was Miss Annette McGibbon. who in her two years
of service guided the class into the channels in which it still
moves, for the work she helped inaugurate continues much the
same. Mrs. Freeman's friendly, co-operative spirit was most
helpful, and almost immediately the class found its place
among the important activities of the church. The plan for its
benevolences, undertaken then, remains the same.

The foreign mission interest is centered around Mrs. Eliza-
l:)eth Cole Fleming's work in India, and each year about one-
sixth of her salary is contributed. As the class became better
organized, the Emergency Committee came into existence.
Its membership comprised the entire class, and it had its sep-
arate treasury. After advertising its readiness to do anything,
from sewing and cooking to nursing and shopping, the class
began to fill orders through its chairman, who received them
and then called on the members of the class to fill them. The
first two years were busy ones, and then the plan was modi-
fied, until now the Emergency Committee fills only orders for
lunches connected with the church activities and for which a
charge is made.

The money that the treasurer of the Emergency Committee
receives each year is used entirely for the Home Mission work
at Association House. This settlement work came into promi-
nence in the church about the time the class was organized,.
and when the question of Home Missions came up, it was
decided to center all the efforts in the library work there.
The new Association House building, dedicated in February
1906, had no provision for library work except the unfurnished
room, some dilapidated and unsuitable books, and many eager
children. The class used every effort to furnish that room.
The silent flooring, paneling, decorating, lighting and furnish-
es

ings drained the treasury that year. Since then the class has
bought new books and rebound old ones, besides paying some
of the running expenses, having expended about $l,5U0 for
library work.

When the class organized, there was no place in which to
hold the Sunday meetings. The church auditorium was too
noisy, and refuge was found under the organ loft In tiiis tun-
nel-like room the class met to listen to Mrs. Freeman, while
the machinery of the organ groaned and wheezed beside them.
The claims for a suitable class room were heard, however, and
when the new addition to the main lecture room was built, one
of the best rooms came to the class, which has furnished it
very attractively.

In November, 1906, Mrs. Freeman was forced to resign her
leadership. Mrs. Ambrose V. Powell has been the most
efficient leader since then, and. with a revised class member-
ship of 56 workers, the class is anticipating many happy,
successful years.

Men's Bible Class

This organization began in the autumn of 1900, at which time
there was no class connected with the Sunday School for young
men. Professor John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago,
recognizing this need, at the request of the Pastor agreed to
teach such a class. The young men to whom the plan was men-
tioned took to the idea enthusiastically, and the class was begun
under the leadership of Dr. Coulter, and in charge of an executive
committee of three, of which Mr. J. Elliott Jennings was chair-
man and class secretary. During the second year Mr. Jennings
withdrew from membershij:) and activity in the class because of
his removal to Evanston. and a class organization of somewhat
different character was perfected. The list of officers was ex-
tended, including a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer,
and certain committee chairmen in charge of membership,
social affairs, etc. Since this reorganization, the presidents of
the class have been A. Miller Belfield. 1903-1906; T. J. liair,
1906-1908; and Ralph H. Rice, 1908-1910. In 1900 there were
perhaps 20 members in the class ; at present there are about
l.-)() names on the roll.

The lesson topics usual in Sunday Schools did not seem to
meet the needs of such a class. Accordingly, series of studies
dealing with the social mission of Christianity have been used, and
since these studies always bore directly upon the varied experi-
•ences of life in a great city, animated discussions soon became

a feature of the class sessions. The following series of topics
have been presented, each one of them usually extending through
a year : The social teachings of Jesus, The social teachings of
the Apostles, Jesus and the Christian character, Social ideals of
the primitive church, The early missionary movements, Chris-
tianity and the social crisis, The Church and social reform. The
discussions have been of intense interest and benefit to all the
members of the class. On account of them, the class has in-
creased steadily in numbers and loyalty, the lives of the members
have been directed into effective channels, ideals have been uplift-
ed, and the attitude of the class toward their fellowmen and the
vexing problems of life have been brought more into harmony
with the teachings of Jesus. The Christian fellowship developed
by the members of the class has been a striking feature which
has been strengthened by frequent social meetings.

Early in its life the class began to be active along practical
lines suggested by its discussions. Settlement work seemed to
present a practical field, and the interest of the class was
brought to the work of one of the settlement houses in the city,
namely Association House, a gospel settlement located in a
very needy district on the northwest side of the city. The
work of this settlement was begun and carried on largely for
girls and women, but a boys' work was beginning, and one of
the members of the class, Mr. S. F. Beatty, was induced to
take charge of a class of boys, meeting in the evening for
study, recreation, etc. Other members of the class were
also interested and took charge of other classes.

The need of better facilities, especially in the matter of build-
ing and equipmentj was so evident that the young men of the
class interested in the matter soon inaugurated a movement to
build a separate building of moderate dimensions for the boys'
work and other needs of Association House. The figure first
mentioned was $500, for a temporary wooden building capable
of serving' as a small gymnasium, especially for boys. At a
dinner of the class, held about the middle of 1903, the matter
was- taken up and considered and subscriptions made toward
such a building, which upon investigation it was found would
have to be a much more costly one than first supposed in order
to answer the intended purpose. The figures mentioned were
$1,500, and then $2,500, and, inasmuch as nearly $1,000 was sub-
scribed at the dinner referred to, the latter figure was adopted
as the one to be reached, if possible. An active canvass for funds
was started, and various ways and means for raising money were

considered. Altogether about $10,000 was raised, including the
gift of a fifty-foot lot for the building.

Upon taking up the matter of a building, however, it was-
deemed best by all friends of the Association House to have a
single building for its entire work, for both boys and girls. A
general canvass for Association House was then inaugurated,
resulting in the raising of a very substantial amount, some
$30,000, and this with the fund raised by the Men's Class was put
into a single building, occupying the property donated to the
Men's Class for a boys' building. The new building contains
ample equipment for both boys and girls, and is provided with
a substantial corps of workers, and has adjacent to it a large play-
ground, sufificient to accommodate several hundred children,
owned in part by Association House at the time the building
was built, and since added to.

Association House serves a large number of people in its com-
munity, the number being estimated at perhaps 5,000, and it
must be a very helpful and leavening influence in its district.
This class has continuously maintained an interest in Association
House and its work, a number of its members being always in
the list of officers and directors, and the members contributing
individually and as a class to the support of the work.

The class has recently taken an interest in another social
betterment movement. This is a work for boys in the old station
of the Illinois Central Railroad at 57th Street, South Park. This
old building has been repaired and equipped with apparatus for
social and gymnasium work with boys, and is directly under the
supervision of the Hyde Park Branch of the Juvenile Protective
Association, and the members of this class are affiliated with the
work and with that association. Dr. T. Grant Allen being in
charge of the class committee connected with the work.

The Men's Club of Hyde Park.

One of the notable organizations that centers about the church,
in the sense that it uses the church for its meetings, and was
organized by men of the church, is the Men's Club of Hyde Park.
It is an organization to afford wholesome fellowship, entertain-
ment, and instruction for the men of Hyde Park, and to develop
and stimulate an interest in the development of civic and social
conditions. The club fills a well recognized place, not only in
the church, but in the community at large, as is evidenced by the
sustained and increasing interest which has characterized its meet-
ings. It has grown from an organization of about 45 members
to one of over 300 members. It was organized ten years ago

through the foresight of Rev. Joseph A. Vance, D. D., and Dr.
John M. Coulter, who gathered together some 30 or 40 men for
social purposes, and who organized under the name of The ]Men's
Social Union.

In the early days of the club it seemed to be more largely
educational than it is at present, for as the years have gone by,
while endeavoring to have each meeting contain something of
real value, the club has emphasized its social side, believing that
to have the men of the church and of the community come to
know each other intimately has a very real value, not only to the
men themselves, but to the church and to the community as well.

The first president of the club was Dr. John M. Coulter, who
served for two years. He has been succeeded by the following
men as presidents : Hon. William H. INIcSurely, 1902-04 ; Dr.
Wilhs (). Nance, 1904-06; A. Miller Belfield/ 1906-08 ; Col.
Nathan \\'illiam IMacChesney, 1908-10.

The club was incorporated in 1908, the application for the
charter being signed by Thomas Madill, AV'illiam F. Cameron,
and Nathan William AlacChesney. It is now thoroughly organ-
ized with a constitution and by-laws, which provide for a Board
of Directors of six members, a President, and a Secretary. The
club is in a flourishing condition and has selected a statement by
Dr. Henry \'an Dyke as expressing its point of view :

"Companionship is the one thing in the world which is abso-
lutely essential to happiness. The human heart needs fellowship
more than anything else — fellowship which is elevated and untir-
ing, stronger and purer than itself, and centered in that which
death cannot change."

YOU N G LADI ES'

Bl BUE CLASS

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CHURCH PARLOR

KINDERGARTEN
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Tuesday, May Third

Reception tor the Ladies

Under the auspices of the Women's Societies of the churchy
a reception was held at 3 p. m. The guests of honor were
women who had attended the httle white chapel in the grove
at the corner of Lake Avenue and 53rd Street. There were
seventeen of these ladies present, some of whom were the
children of the early church, each wearing an American Beauty-
rose as a means of identification. They were Mrs. H. N. Hib-
bard, Miss Edith Hibbard, Mrs. Lodge, Mrs. Nettie Moore^
Mrs. Paul Cornell, Mrs. Alvord, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Clark, Mrs.
A. V. Powell, Mrs. Leslie Lewis, Mrs. D. S. Johnson, Miss Edna
Johnson, Mrs. Baldwin, Miss Renimer, ]\Irs. Hamilton B. Bogue,
and Mrs. P. L. Sherman. The most honored guest, Mrs. Paul Cor-
nell, the only living charter member of the church (among the
women), carried a large bunch of roses, the gift of the ladies'
committee.

The program began with a group of bird songs by Mrs.
Charles Robbins, after which there was an address by Mrs.
P. L. Sherman, who said, in ])art : 'Tn J 858 my husband and
I were at the Richmond Hotel on the northwest corner of
South Water Street and Michigan Avenue, when we received
an invitation to attend the dedication of the little Hyde Park
Chapel. The day arrived and we hired a horse and buggy and
drove south to the little church. On our way we stopped at
Kenwood, where my husband had recently purchased ten acres
of ground on Lake Avenue in the vicinity of 47th Street. I
was chiefly impressed by the beautiful wild flowers growing
on the place, especially the great clumps of white and purple
phlox. I have often wondered how many people now live on
those ten acres. The only thing left of the beautiful trees and
flowers that used to be there is one sickly little horse chestnut
tree in the court of a flat Ijuilding.

"We drove on to the little church, and the first thing that
greeted our sight was the decorated gate posts. There was an
ordinary picket fence around the churchyard, but the gate
posts were taller than usual, and around these posts were the
most beautiful wreaths of wild flowers, as large as a wagon
wheel and as thick as my arm. Inside, the church was most
prettily decorated with similar wild flowers. There my

memory stops. I do remember, though, that before we drove
home we stopped at Mrs. Paul Cornell's and she gave us the
most delicious cake. The sermon and the text have escaped
me, but the memory of that cake remains to this day.

"Shortly after, we built our home in Kenwood and became
regular attendants at the church. When the congregation
divided, it was our duty to drive every Sunday afternoon to
39th Street, the end of the horse-car line, for the Episcopal
clergyman. Of course that meant entertaining him at tea on
Sunday evening, and then driving back to 39th Street with
him at the close of the day. There was a Presbyterian wood
pile on one side of the churchyard, and an Episcopalian wood
pile on the other, but there were no squabbles. The Presby-
terian and Episcopalian ladies met together for their sewing
societies, and together they packed boxes and barrels for the
soldiers."

Mrs. Fenton sang a group of songs, and Mrs. E. S. Wil-
liams of Minneapolis, who was a member of this church
thirty-five years ago, followed with a brief address. Mrs.
Williams was chairman of the box committee when Mrs. C. B.
Nelson was the president of the Missionary Society, and re-
lated some laughable experiences in connection with her of-
fice.

Mrs. Robbins sang again, and Mrs. Leslie Lewis read a
paper written many years ago by Mrs. Homer N. Hibbard for
the Ladies' Aid Society, entitled "A Leaf from an Old Book,"
the record book of the Ladies' Aid Society from 1870 to 1886.
'Tt was very pleasant to look back through the pages of the
old book. They are fragrant with loving service of the ante-
chamber of the sanctuary. They record a steady growth in
power, love and faith. They preserve the memory of well-
beloved faces which we shall never again see among us."

Miss Edna Johnson, daughter of Rev. David S. Johnson,
Pastor of this church from 1867 to 1880, in a very simple and
beautiful way, told of her first impressions.

"My earliest recollection of going to church is of being
confronted by a flight of stairs and climbing up laboriously
step by step with my mother's help. I think that must have
been at the little wooden chapel, at least this is the only mem-
ory which entitles me to be numbered among the honorary
guests here today.

"I have a very distinct recollection of the old stone church,
where I learned to climb by myself the long stairway lead-
ing to the auditorium on the second floor. I used to enjoy

sitting- in one corner of our long pew and saying the names
of the different families over softly to myself as they assem-
bled for the service." Miss Johnson continued with a most
interesting series of stories of her recollections of a surprise
party at the Pastor's house, a bazaar under the auspices of
the "Busy Gleaners," and the Sunday School.

Letters were read from Mrs. W. A. Olmsted, now of Wash-
ington City, and from Mrs. Daniel Home of River Forest, now
90 years old, a member of this church since 1864.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society began January 22,
1869, when, at the second meeting of the Sewing Society, the
ladies present resolved themselves into a missionary society ''for
the purpose of gaining missionary intelligence," the president of
the Sewing Society acting also as president of the Missionary So-
ciety. Mrs. Norman B. Judd was the first president, serving for
two years ; and Mrs. C. B. Nelson was appointed secretary. Mrs.
Charles Hitchcock was treasurer for the first two years and says
that her possession of a horse kept her in office rather than her
missionary zeal. Her duty was not only to receive the dues but
to collect them as well. The congregation was scattered from
47th street to Stony Island, and she often went twice a month
before she succeeded in getting the fifty (or perhaps ten) cent
subscriptions.

Mrs. Judd and Mrs. Hitchcock drew up the first constitution,
which was quite simple, but adequate for the needs at the time.
Not long after it was adopted, a request came from the ladies
of the Second Presbyterian Church for a copy of it. There were
seven articles and three by-laws, which were from time to time
altered or amended as the needs of the society demanded. In
Article 1 the name of the society was given as "The Ladies' Hyde
Park Missionary Society," which should be "auxiliary to the
Woman's Board of Missions located at Chicago." Article III
is interesting in the statement that "the object of this society is
to engage in earnest, systematic efforts in raising funds for the
support of unmarried lady missionaries and native teachers and
Bible readers to heathen women through the agency of the
American Board, and to awaken a renewed interest in the hearts
of Christians in the great object of spreading a knowledge of
God's word among heathen nations." Article VI provided for
a meeting to be held the "first Friday of each month for the
transaction of business connected with the society. On the
intervening Fridays, at any meeting of the Hyde Park Sewing

Society, letters from missionary fields were to be read by any
lady in possession of such intellig"ence." This method did not
seem to be productive of great results for some time, for the
secretary's reports showed that interest must have centered in
the sewing, or else missionary information was more difficult to
get than now. For weeks at a time the minutes read something
like this: "Met March 26 at the house of Mrs. Nelson. No
report. Adjourned to meet at Mrs. Bogue's Friday, April 2."
These minutes, found in the little book of the first secretary, are-
interesting reading to those who remember the pioneer work-
ers in the Woman's Society. Names such as Mrs. N. B. Judd,
Mrs. C. B. Nelson, Mrs. D. S. Johnson, Mrs. Salhe Bogue, Mrs.
John Remmer, Mrs. Charles Hitchcock, Mrs. James Wadsworth,.
Mrs. Stickney, Mrs. Van Doren, Mrs. George Stewart, Mrs.
E. G. Clark. Mrs. Van H. Higgins, Mrs. H. N. Hibbard, Mrs.
J. N. Barker. Mrs. E. S. \\^illiams, Mrs. Mary Lodge, and many
more, set us to thinking of the "old times" and what very good
times they were.

Within the next decade came a number of fine, earnest women
who were well fitted to take up the work some of the first were
ready to lay down. Among these were Mrs. M. E. W. Cole, Mrs.
John A. Cole and her mother, Mrs. Alvord, Mrs. Henry V. Free-
man, Mrs. L. D. Chapin, Mrs. Charles H. Arms, Mrs. W. A. Olm-
sted, Mrs. H. H. Belfield, Mrs. W. C. Nelson, Miss Elizabeth
Stewart, Mrs. Edgar L. Jayne, Mrs. John C. Welling, and Miss
Mary Paul.

During the twenty-two years from the beginning in 18(39 to
1891 the society had seven presidents, three secretaries, and five
treasurers, the longest terms of service being those of Mrs. H. N.
Hibbard and Mrs. \\'. C. Nelson, who served the society as secre-
taries from 1871 to 1891, each ten years. The next longest term
was that of Mrs. John Remmer as treasurer for eight years, from
1871 to 1879, and Mrs. J. N. Barker a« president for six years.
from 1874 to 1880.

The early records show a membership of 33. which increased
to 50 in a few months, and the monev collected during the first
year amounted to $56.43.

In October 1870, the society took upon itself the education-
of a young girl in a school at Marsooan, who was called Noyem-
zar. This name seemed to be such a puzzle to western ears that
some one conceived the idea of having the name plainly written
on cards to be sold at a cent each, thus adding to the fund in
the treasury.

In December of the same year the society withdrew from the:

American Board and united with the Assembly's Board of Mis-
sions. This meant giving up the missionary fields in which they
had been interested, and Mrs. C B. Nelson was appointed to can-
vass the missionary ground and report at the next quarterly meet-
ing, that a new field might be decided upon. Syria was the
choice of the society, and Miss Eliza Everett of Beirut Seminary
was asked to put one of her girls under our care.

"Woman's Work for Woman" had its first subscribers among
us in 1871, and still continues to be read, though under a slightly
dififerent name, "Woman's Work."

It was in June 1872 that the Woman's Board asked for an
expression of opinion from all auxiliary societies as to whether
the work of home and foreign missionary societies should in
future be carried on as two separate organizations, or, as here-
tofore, by one society. It was voted that there should be two
separate societies, and steps were taken to form a Home Mis-
sionary Society.

In this year scholarships were taken in the school at Tabriz,
Persia, and in Mrs. House's school in Siam, after some corre-
spondence with Rev. Mr. Shedd of Persia, Mrs. Rhea of Persia,
and Miss Dean, the first missionary sent out by the new Board
of the Northwest, and Miss Jewett. as to the best field for work.
At this time and for several years the letters and home visits of
Mrs. Rhea were a wonderful inspiration.

Just here was encountered the first serious difficulty in collect-
ing facts for this history, being unable to find any official record of
the society from 1873 to 1887 ; but from one source and another
we find that we were carrying three scholarships. One was at
Oroomiah, Persia, and two were at Bangkok. Siam, for each of
which we sent $30 a year ; and for several years $20 annually was
given to the Ada School in the mountains of Persia.

A most important epoch in the history of our society was in
1882, when we sent Miss Sarah C. Wirt as our missionary to the
Laos people. Miss Wirt had been a missionary visitor in Dr.
Wishard's church, the Fifth Presbyterian, before uniting with
ours, and offered herself to the Board in response to Dr. McGil-
vary's appeal for workers among the Laos people. Our society
immediately set to work to get her ready for the long journey
and her work as "our missionary." The ladies met at different
homes and cut, fitted, and made many garments. Every one
wanted to have a share in the preparations. The Young People's
Society gave her a watch, and the Sunday School a medicine chest.
She sailed from San Francisco September 21, 1882, with a com-
pany of missionaries bound for the Laos field, and arrived at

Bangkok November 21. On the ship was Rev. Samuel Peoples,
M. D., to whom she became engaged in the course of the next
few months, and they were married at Bangkok November 13,
1883. We were told that she wears the first wedding ring made
in Siam. Their first home was at Chieng Mai, convenient to the
dispensary and hospital where Dr. Peoples spent a good share of
his time, and Mrs. Peoples often assisted most skillfully in caring
for the sick and at surgical cases. In fact, it would be easier
almost to say what she has not done in all these twenty-eight years,
for, being a practical woman, she has had to turn her hand to all
sorts of work. Her letters have been most interesting as well as
instructive, and have been saved for us and those who come after,
by Mrs. Myrtilla Alvord. who copied them all on her typewriter,
making a large volume which Mrs. Cole has had bound and values
highly as the work of her dear mother. Dr. and Mrs. Peoples
have made two moves since they went out, first from Chieng Mai
to Lakawn in September 18S5, and again in January 1895 to
Nan. where they have remained until the present time.

During this year, 1895, our congregation, men, women and
all, raised $1,000 to buy a lot on which to build a suitable place
of worship at Nan, and later approximately $600, made up of
memorial gifts, were sent to build a small church called Hyde
Park Chapel, which contains a tablet bearing the names of those
in whose memory the money was given. A pretty Sunday morn-
ing custom is the marching of the Mission School children to this
chapel, dressed in their clean white jackets, and singing hymns.
The fine French stereopticon lantern which our people sent out to
Mrs. Peoples, with slides for the Bible School, has given great
pleasure to both children and grown people, and has been most
valuable in illustrating Bible talks. The Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society has occasionally sent boxes containing articles
for the comfort and pleasure of Dr. and Mrs. Peoples, and in
1890, when their son Samuel Ray Peoples was born, a baby's
complete outfit was sent.

In 1895 the society adopted a new working plan which was
suggested by Mrs. Herring, the wife of our pastor. This plan
has made the duties of the president less arduous, has interested
many more wonien than ever before in missionary work, and has
proved very satisfactory in all respects. The women of the church
are divided into ten groups of perhaps thirty in each, living as
nearly as possible in one district. Each group or division has
a leader and an assistant, who are responsible for one meeting
each year, and who try to call on every lady in the division
during the year. Each division has its special missionary field

FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES
Mrs. Sarah Wirt Peoples August K. Reischauer Miss Juniata Ricketts

JNan, Liaos Tokyo. .Japan Hangchow, China

Mrs. Loretta C. Van Hook Mrs. Elizt-beth Cole Fleming

Lahore, India

Tabriz. Persia

which forms the topic of its meeting. Pledges are sent out
to each member at the beginning of the year, and subscriptions
are made, payable yearly, quarterly, or monthly, according to
the convenience of the subscriber.

A Mission Study Class was formed in 1902. led by Airs.
John Cole and consisting of twenty members. It continued for
eight years, until the whole course adopted by the Ecumenical
Conference was completed and a class of four graduated. Since
then the Alission Study Class has been a permanent feature of
our church life, and this year is studying Latin America under
Miss Stewart's leadership.

In this same year we decided to give up our scholarships
and take upon ourselves the support of another missionary.
Through Mrs. Freeman we became interested in Miss Juniata
Ricketts, who went out to Hangchow, China, and has been
there ever since, with the exception of one furlough spent in
this country.

In 1903 Mrs. Loretta C. Van Hook, a much loved member
of our church, and a returned missionary from Persia, went
back to her old field at Tabriz, and it has been our privilege
to have a share in the payment of her salary.

The history of the Woman's Foreign Missionary .Society
would not be complete if we omitted the name of the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cole, Mrs. Elizabeth Cole Fleming,
the youngest and latest missionary to go out from our church.
The Young People's Society, many of whose members had been
her life-long friends, assumed her support, but she is claimed
bv all of us, for we have seen her grow up almost from baby-
hood. In 1904 she married Dr. D. J. Fleming and went out
to Lahore, India. Once she has been back, bringing her little
two-year-old daughter, and those who were so fortunate as to
hear her tell of her life and work in India will not soon forget
it. In fact, the talks and letters of all our missionaries, which
we are privileged to hear from time to time, are an inestimable
inspiration to the workers in our society, and thrill us with
the possibilities for the future of a work \\'hich in the last forty
years has risen from so small a beginning to its present status.

The Woman's Home Missionary Society.

There has been a Home Missionary Committee in the church
since 1882, Airs. Joseph N. Barker being its first chairman.
When Mrs. Charles H. Root came to Hyde Park from a large
working Home Missionary Society in St. Louis, she interested
a few ladies in a Home Missionary Society. Also Mrs. M. L.

Beers, we learn from the beautiful memorial to her, was one
of the first ladies interested in the formation of our Woman's
Home Missionary Society. She served on the executive committee
and soon after she moved into her new house (Jefferson Avenue
and 5-lth Place), threw it open for a musical and tea, at which
nearly $50 was raised for the Society. But it is in the minutes
of tlie Ladies' Aid Society that we find the first authentic
account of its organization on April 18. 1888. At a meeting
of the Ladies' Aid Society on that date, Mrs. Bogue stated the
reasons why it had been thought best to form a Home Mission-
ary Society. These reasons seemed so forcible to those present
(40 ladies) that it was decided to organize a Home Mission-
ary Society, and the following officers were elected : Mrs.
Charles H. Root, president ; Mrs. Charles H. Lewis, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. T. H. Hamill, secretary; and Mrs. John A. Cole,
treasurer. Madame Cole and Mrs. Hibbard were appointed a
committee to prepare a constitution.

In the minutes of the Ladies' Aid Society for November 17,
1888, it is recorded that Mrs. Charles Root, the president of the
Home Missionary Society, asked for the constitution, which was
read, approved and adopted. It was stated that every month
one meeting should be devoted to Home Missions. Another
entry of January l(i, 1889, records "It was decided that limcheon
should be served at the first meeting in each month, that being
the day devoted to Home Mission work." These and other
entries in the minutes of the Ladies' Aid Society seem to show
that the Home Missionary Society kept pretty close to the Aid
Society for some time.

While the Home Missionary Soicety considered different
fields of labor each month, its one special interest was the sup-
port of its missionary Miss Albertine Butts at Mary Allen Semi-
nary, Crockett, Texas, and her work among the Freedmen.
Lentil March 18!»5. the contributions of the Society went through
the Freedmen's Board. After that date all funds were sent to
the treasurer of the Woman's Presbyterial Society of Home Mis-
sions in the Synod of Illinois, to be apportioned to various causes
supported by the Board, which method still continues.

For many years the regular subject for May was the Presby-
terian Hospital, and Miss Patterson, the hospital missionary,
would give an account of the spiritual work in the institution
and its results, telling many impressive anecdotes in a way that
touched all hearts.

The sending of missionary boxes to home missionaries and
minister's families has been a special feature of the work each

year. No one can read the grateful letters from the recipients
without feeling- the need for this phase of the work.

In November, 1900, Mrs. W. A. Olmsted established the Mia
Olmsted memorial scholarship in the Girls' Industrial School at
Concord, N. C, among- the mountain whites, credit for which
was to be given to this society. Every year she sends the re-
quired $75 through the treasurer of our Home Missionary
Society.

The Home Missionary Society seems first to have come in
close touch with the Foreign Missionary Society during the
summer of 1893, as the Annual Report of April 189-i says:
"We did not take the usual vacation of two months in the sum-
mer, but instead held union meetings with the Ladies' Foreign
Missionary Society in July, August and September."

In April 1905 the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
and the Home Missionary Society tried the experiment of meet-
ing on the same day, with luncheon served between the meetings.

The combined societies decided to try still another experi-
ment this year (1910), that of having one president for both
Societies; therefore, at the annual meetings (February), Mrs.
Robert F. Cummings was unanimously elected president of both
the Foreign and the Home Missionary societies.

The Ladies' Aid Society.

In the early years we were very few in numbers, and the
small society existed under several dififerent names. First it
was called "The Ladies' Sewing Society," and held itself
ready to take in sewing of all kinds, to be done on reasonable
terms. After several years this method was discontinued, and
in 1872 the "Ladies' Plome Missionary Society" took its place.
This society met to make garments to be sent in missionary
boxes. In 1874 it was reorganized under the name it now
bears, "The Ladies' Aid Society."

Besides the usual work of such a society, it had then the
care of the sick and poor. There was no other organization
to do charity work, and for years any case of poverty, sick-
ness, or suffering which came to the knowledge of the church
was cared for by this society. Coal and comfortable garments,
were distributed, nurses and medical attendance provided in
cases of sickness, and nourishing food and delicacies furnished,,
often for weeks at a time.

All recognized and respectable methods of raising money
were well-known to the veterans of the society. Whenever a
tight pinch came, and the fiat went forth that "something

must be done," forthwith the fair, the picnic, the New Eng-
land supper, the Martha Washington tea party, or some other
enterprise called all the hosts together for service.

The Aid Society justified its name by more than once bring-
ing up the arrears of the pastor's salary, when the trustees
were unable to raise the money. There were a few years
when we were called to walk in dark and trying paths. The
debt which had hung over us ever since the building of the
church had been growing more and more burdensome and
oppressive. In January 1881, a memorable day in the history
of the church, Mr. Edward Kimball appeared and announced
that he was going to help lift that debt. When at length the
societies of the church were called on for contributions, a few
of the members of the Ladies' Aid Society gathered in neigh-
boring pews and, holding their breath while they did it,
pledged themselves to give $1,000. They felt frightened the
next day when the glow of enthusiasm had faded a little, but
they set to work stout-heartedly, with woman's characteristic
impatience of being in debt, and with such blessing on their
effort that the $1,000 was paid in six months, instead of the
two years which had been given them.

For a long while the wear of time and weather on the
church had been growing painfully apparent on walls and
ceilings and floor. It grew worse. We were ashamed to have
our new pastor, Mr. Ray, who came to us in the spring of
1881, believe that we were such bad housekeepers. One day
a large piece of ornamental cornice fell, leaving an unsightly
chasm. Something must be done. The treasury was empty
and the trustees, when appealed to, shook their heads dis-
couragingly. The cry went forth as to a forlorn hope, "The
Ladies' Aid Society to the rescue!" By this time the Ladies'
Aid Society had begun to be regarded as the Tenth Legion.
or better, perhaps, "the Old Guard, which never surrenders.'
Our energetic president, "Sirs. Higgins, said we must do it,
and we did it in the summer of 1881. We came back to our
clean and freshly decorated church on October 9, 1881. This
campaign brought our treasury very low ; after all bills were
paid, two cents were left.

The old book follows the fortunes of the Aid Society only
so much farther as to record the aid given by the society in
the building of the manse. On March 4, 1885, it was voted at
a meeting of the Aid Society that the money in the treasury
be appropriated to the parsonage fund. The enterprises for
adding to this fund, by making aprons and comforters, and by

various entertainments, went on briskly during the year, to so
good a purpose that a reception was held in the completed
manse on the evening- of April 2, 1886.

The foregoing is an abstract of a paper written by Mrs.
Homer X. Hibbard, for many years secretary of the Aid
Society.

There was still a mortgage on the manse, which was car-
ried until 1888, when the society decided to raise the money
by personal subscription, which was done, "and the manse
passed from the Ladies' Aid Society into the hands of the
church trustees, becoming church property." It has been
the mission of the society ever since, however, to keep a watch-
ful eye on the manse, and to renew its decorations from time
to time, as well as to assist with occasional repairs.

The society was growing, keeping pace with the growth
of the neighborhood, and had about doubled its attendance in
two years.

In 1889, the Financial Committee of the Trustees sent a
letter asking help in raising money for the proposed new
church, and $1,000 was pledged. The never-to-be-forgotten
bazaar held in the Tabernacle the next December raised $700
of the amount, and on April 2, 1890, the society held its first
meeting in the new church parlors. At that time began the
buying of kitchen equipments, and china, glass, silver, and
tables of various sorts, also sewing machines, which, continu-
ing up to the present, has gradually accumulated a fine outfit.

The period of Mrs. Walter Nelson's presidency was marked
by a very noticeable increase in membership, due to her per-
sonal effort in interesting ladies and securing members. Mrs.
Nelson set her aim for a membership of 100, and she passed it
by ten, with an attendance often reaching 65. . Sociables were
more popular then than now. In January 1893 the Aid So-
lety gave one which was attended by 350 people.

At the March election that year, Mrs. T. G. McCulloh re-
placed the faithful and competent Mrs. Nichols as treasurer,
and has served in that capacity ever since, seventeen consecu-
tive years, much to the satisfaction of the society.

The attendance, which had been waning a little, took an
upward bound when Dr. Vance came, and has been soaring
ever since, until, with an attendance of from 85 to 100 and more,
we are even outgrowing our much enlarged accommodations.

As soon as the new church was built there was another
church debt, and for three years in succession the society
pledged and paid $500 toward it, making a total of $3,500 re-

corded as paid by the Aid Society toward tlie two church
buildings.

Methods of raising money have been much the same from
the beginning, but one bazaar was a unique success, a truly
beautiful affair, which attracted widespread attention. It was
called "A Trip Around the World," and was held in February
1901, under the direction of Mrs. J. E. Parke. The bazaar of
December IHO!) surpassed all others by taking in over $1,800,
besides being a notable success artistically.

In 1906 the day of meeting was changed from Wednes-
day to Tuesday.

Since 1907 the society has had another period of rapid
growth, and this time due to the formation of the Young La-
dies' Guild, which has taken charge of the fancy work and
made the last two holiday bazaars the great success they have
been.

It falls to the lot of the Aid Society to do a good share
of the entertaining in the church, and from time to time the
Presbytery, the Synod, and other large gatherings have been
served with luncheon or dinner. The first annual church
dinner was served by the society in April 1904. Circum-
stances prevented its repetition in succeeding years, but it is
now becoming an established custom.

Not all of the work of the Aid Society is to raise money,
for a very large amount of sewing is done for charity. Such
institutions as the Presbyterian Hospital, Glen wood School,
Crippled Children's Home, and the School Children's Aid So-
ciety annually receive contributions of sewing or money, or
both.

Golden Jubilee Banquet.

In the evening of Tuesday, the men of the church and their
guests assembled at the Chicago Beach Hotel for the Golden
Jubilee Banquet. It was an occasion of good fellowship and
many reminiscences, and the most notable single feature, per-
haps, was the singing of patriotic songs written by former
members of the congregation. These songs were printed in the
very handsome menu and program booklet, and included "The
Battle-Cry of Freedom" and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," by
George F. Root, and "Marching Through Georgia," by Henry
C. Work.

Judge Henry V. Freeman acted as toastmaster, and his
introductory remarks were in substance as follows :

"It is my pleasant duty as chairman to w^elcome here to-
night the representatives of other churches of our neighbor-

hood who are sitting at this table. We have with us Dr.
Grosser, of the Kenwood Evangehcal Church, at the extreme
right: next, Mr. H. L. Waite of St. Paul's Episcopal Church;
then we have Dr. Nathaniel Butler of the University, repre-
senting the Baptist Church ; next to him sits Mr. Hamilton
B. Bogue, one of the charter members of our church ; then
comes the Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D. ; Dr. Hubert C.
Herring, one of our former pastors ; Major James H. Cole,
an early member of the church ; Rev. Dr. Frothingham,
Stated Clerk of the Presbytery ; Dr. Edward H. Curtis,
pastor of the Woodlawn Presbyterian Church, which is one
of the children of this church ; Rev. C. Harmon Johnson,
of the South Park Presbyterian Church, son of our former
beloved pastor ; then Mr. Frederick W. Root, son of the
late George F. Root, who rendered such distinguished service
to the Union cause during the Civil War by his great war
songs, some of which are on the program ; then Mr. Leslie
Lewis, representing the South Park Congregational Church.

Recently Mr. Hamilton Bogue told me that Henry C.
Work, another w^'iter of great war songs, the author of the
famous "Marching Through Georgia," who was a member of
this church in the early days, had at one time an attack of
illness when he and his young wife were living in a frame
house on Madison Avenue south of o3rd Street. Mr. Bogue,
though working down town every day, frequently went over
there, and in good old neighborly fashion sat up with the sick
man night after night. At that time Mr. Work was compos-
ing his well known war song "Kingdom Coming." Mr. Bogue
recalls that while Mr. Work was lying wakeful at midnight he
sometimes laughed out loud with hearty glee as some humor-
ous situation developed itself in his mind, which he has set
forth in that song."

"The men of that time were bearing the heavy financial
burdens of the church. They were struggling to build it up.
In every way, financial and spiritual, they were trying to
serve the Lord. Their memories ought to be pleasant to us.
tonight, now that most of them have passed to a higher and
nobler service than that of earth. We realize tonight that
this church has done a great work in the community. It
has often seemed to me, and doubtless to others, that it was
not making very much impression, but I am conscious tonight,
as I look backward, that it has made and is making a very real
impression. There has always been here a genuine Christian influ-
ence making itself felt from generation to generation. The older

members of the church cannot think of its past without recalHng
the very large number of good men and women who were striving
in all its history to serve God in sincere and earnest religious life
and service. Such men and women are always making impres-
sions for good, the extent of which neither they nor others realize
at the time, but which nevertheless survive. If it were not
true of this church and had not always been true of it that it
has been earnestly trying to do the Lord's w^ork here, we
should not be celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, for this cele-
bration is of no value unless it shall stimulate to higher efiforts
and nobler service in the years to come.

"1 remember reading one morning many years ago that Rev.
Galusha Anderson had been called to the head of the old Chicago
University. He had lived here before, having been pastor of
the Second Baptist Church. The people there still hold him in
loving remembrance. Tonight they required his presence at a
meeting of their own, in which they paid honor to the memory
and loving service of an old member of his congregation. Dr.
Anderson became president of the old university and later a
professor in the new. There have been three different periods
when the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church was without a pastor
and it has called on him to serve as acting pastor in its pulpit.
Now in the Indian Summer of his years he has retired from the
new university's service and is doing valuable and earnest work in
other fields. In these golden years he has all that should accom-
pany old age. love, honor, and troops of friends ; and I am very
sure that not the least grateful of the friends who cherish him are
those of the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church. \\'e rejoice that
he is with us tonight."

Dr. Galusha Ander.sox : 'T feel very much at home to-
night, and I am very happy to l)e here. Still you belong to one
denomination of Christians and I belong to another, and why
am I happy? Simply because to be a Christian is a vastly
greater thing than to be a Baptist ; to be a Christian is a vastly
greater thing than to be a Presbyterian ; and because we meet
here as Christians, as those who love Jesus Christ, our hearts
flow together.

"Perhaps there is another reason why I felt at home in the
Presbyterian church. ]\Iy grandfather was a Scotch Presby-
terian. He was born in this country of Scotch parents, a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church of Leroy, in western New^ York.
A few years ago, when I was in that village, the brethren found
out there w^as a grandson of their Presbyterian elder in town,
and thev would have me stav over night, and thev filled the

church full, I suppose just to see how the orandson of the Pres-
byterian elder looked, and how he talked ; and I had a j^^lorious
time with the Presbyterian brethren there.

"I remember some years ago when Mr. Kimball was trying
to wipe out the church debt and did it. In the evening I said,
although I was pretty poor in those days and have not bettered
myself much since, 'I must pay -$25 on that debt because my
grandfather was a Scotch Presbyterian' ; and he announced it
and said 'blood will tell.' Well, that was a great day. I have
always been glad I was present on that occasion. He came
unexpectedly in the morning. The elders of the church were
greatly disturbed ; they did not think it possible to raise that
debt. I came in and found them in that condition. I remember
Mr. Hibbard said 'you want to preach this morning, don't you?'
'Well, I am not so very particular about it.' He wanted to get
an excuse to turn Kimball off. 'Well,' he said, 'you came here
for the purpose of preaching, didn't you?' 'Certainly.' Don't
you really want to preach?' he asked. 'Yes, I want to preach.'
'Mr. Kimball is here and wants to raise the church debt, and we
don't think he had better do it.' 'Don't think a moment of me.'
I said, 'I should like to see the debt raised.' And they let him
begin. At ten o'clock that night we had the thing done. They
could do more than they thought. That was a great day, a
day of triumph for this church.

"Now the thing that cheered me most m the history I lieard
Sunday morning was the reference to the mission which this
church planted and took care of, and which grew into a strong
Presbyterian church, and has been a strong Presbyterian church
now for many years. So this church reproduced itself to the
south of it. Now this proves what churches are for. They are
in this world to establish the Kingdom of God in the hearts of
men, and to propagate themselves by putting out these missions
and then nurturing them until they grow into efficient
churches.

"We must save the cities if we are to save this republic, and
so the stress of our evangelical endeavor ought to be in the large
cities. If we do it, we must proceed on the idea of Christ.
Christ always turned his heart towards those that had gone
astray. The Good Shepherd went after the sheep that was lost
until he found it, and his ministry was summed up in the saying
'He came to seek and to save that which was lost.' If we are
going to evangelize this great city, we must plant missions and
save the people right in the worst places, and keep them there
until we regenerate these neighborhoods."

"In the early days of the McCormick Seminary some young
men said : 'We want to plant a Sunday School, and we want
to find the worst place on this side of the city in which to
plant it.' Some men said : 'Go over there ; that is the worst
place on the north side; they call it 'Hell's Hole."' They
established that Sunday School, and they gathered in the
children, and they preached the Gospel, and renovated the
neighborhood, and today a flourishing Presbyterian Church
stands upon the ver}^ place where they planted their mission,
and it has stood there for years. They w^ent to the worst
place first and that is what w^e should do. Now, how are
we going to do it? Xo one denomination can do it, but all of
them united together can do it, and we need not put aside our
peculiar notions, either, unless we want to."

Judge Freeman : "Seme sixteen years ago Dr. Herring came
to us as the pastor of the church, was with us four years, and
was greatly beloved. When he went away he left behind him
a sincere regret tm the part of the congregation, who had be-
come deeply attached to him in the relation of pastor and
people. He went from here to Omaha, and is now doing
noble service in the Congregational Church, has become one of
its most prominent and active Board secretaries, and is ren-
dering yeoman service for God and humanity. We rejoice in
his presence tonight and I have great pleasure in presenting
him to you.

Dr. Herring: "It is a very great pleasure indeed to have a
share in this semicentennial celebration. As Judge Free-
man has said, I have pitched my tent in another camp for
twelve years, but the camp is not so far away but that I have
been able to hear the reports of your prosperity, the growth
of your numbers, the enlargement of your plant, the splendid
leadership that you have and the loyal and splendid following,
and the wide and widening influence that you have exerted ;
and the camp has not been so far away, either, that I have
failed to have great pleasure in hearing of that prosperity, and
in knowing of it rather intimately through the various chan-
nels by which it came. It is a very happy thing to think that
at the end of fifty years there is so much to be grateful for, and
so much to be hopeful for, as you gather here.

My own memories of Hyde Park run back of my pastorate.
In 1879 I came as a student at the old university at 35th Street
and Cottage Grove Avenue. Hyde Park was then a village
somewhere southward. I do not remember that I knew any-
body who had been there : nobody made such a daring trip.

A. L. Smith

Arthur V. Lee

Abner T. Hinckley

DEACONS

Anson S. Hopkins
Henry S. Osborne

Charles E. Ware

Chas. L. Boyd

Edwin D. Wheelock

That university was presided over by Dr. Anderson, who has
just spoken.

"I note that there have been changes here. I see more new
faces than I thought I should, for as I have scanned your
church roll from year to year, I have been interested to see
how constant is the body of workers of this church. I pre-
sume I know a great many of these young men if I only could
place them. Presumably they were boys twelve years ago, when I
left here, and they have grown to manhood, and there have
disappeared the outlines of countenance which I should recog-
nize.

"It is interesting to note that the men who werecarryingthe
burdens of the old days are carrying them still, with reinforce-
ments, and it is a pleasure to think of the years of friendly service
given by these men.

"Your church is getting out of its youth. I suppose that in
this country a church 200 years old is an old church, because that
represents about the maximum which is reached by some of the
far eastern churches that were organized in the early days. This
church developed in organizing its spiritual muscle and strength,
and is now ready for its great service. These past years, what-
ever they have been, havebeen preliminary years, and you are to
begin doing the great work of this church. Just as a man passing
the age of forty might be said to be ready to do the utmost that
in him lies, so you may say of this church. I want to call your
attention to a single thing, and that is that your church, by virtue
of its location, by virtue of its history, by virtue of its present
strength, has upon it a sort of responsibility that would not rest
upon a church of similar membership located in some other part
of the country, where its function would be primarily that of a
shepherd of a flock of people, and sending out its gifts for the
evangelization of the world. You are here in a position of
strength, in a locality influential in its nature, in the midst of a
throbbing heart of the great interior of our land. Your church,
therefore, takes on quadruple significance. You are those to
shepherd a flock; you are those to send gifts out to evangelize
the world ; you are those to provide for the generation that shall
grow up around you ; but beyond that there is much to do here.
You are in the midst of a city which must be conquered and held
for Jesus Christ, if ever we mean to conquer and hold this great
interior for Jesus Christ. Now that all means that there ought
to be in your church life here a sort of quality in all these coming
years of your maturity which shall dififerentiate you from a
church dififerently placed. And I want to remind you that your

church, situated thus, influences those heavily laden with obli-
gations, upon whose success or failure depends the success or
failure of this great experiment which would win the world.
"We have come into an age of philanthropy when it is vastly
easier than it ever was to get men to give of their substance for
the relief of trouble and sickness, an age of reform when men's
hearts are hot against corruption and evil as they never were,
and an age of education when the truest desire of every home is
that our children may be educated and the money of men is
brought out like water to found educational institutions. All
these things are luminous with hope. They cannot fail to stir
one's heart to have a share in such great movements. But if
philanthropy, reform, and education could accomplish all they
desire unto its utmost limit, they would still fail to reach the need
of humanity, for they have no power to bring man into relations
with God, and the Church of Jesus Christ exists for that purpose.
And I remind you, also, that neither reform nor education nor
philanthropy can carry out that program unless behin-^ them and
in them is the thrill and love of Jesus Christ which flows into the
world through its church. But your philanthropy will die, and
your reform will die, and your education grow cold and false, un-
less the coming of Christ is added. The great, big, central respon-
sibilit}' is on us who have in hand the afifairs of the church of
Jesus Christ to make, if we can, the church and the world one,
co-workers ; and it is for us to see, especially in the great cities,
that the church is an institution of heaven. The church shall
then get the most devoted elTort of our lives, and, so far as in us
lies, with faith and prayer and activity let us help the church to
win the battle and win the world for our Lord Christ."

Judge Freeman: "In 1872, when I first united with the
Hyde Park Church, there was a young man here, with his
wife and daughter, who became active in the church work.
He became so interested in Christ's work that he gave up his
business, and since that time has been a preacher and worker
for the conversion of men. I am not going to take time to
introduce him to you at length. Many of you have met him,
many of you have heard of him, and I think many of you
know of the work he is doing. Many parts of this and other
lands have borne witness to his zeal and efficiency, and wher-
ever his pilgrim feet have trod, he has left the impress of an
earnest man seeking to serve his God and Master. I intro-
duce Major James H. Cole.

Major Cole, after relating anecdotes of his early expe-
riences in Chicago, and also in the army, closed as follows:

"Friends, you do not know what this Presbyterian Church
is to me. My father was a genuine Methodist minister, my
mother was a Presbyterian, my oldest brother a Baptist minister,
and my wife a Congregationahst. I am a mixture, and in my
heart I belong to all of them. A mighty union has taken place
down in the Auditorium this week, where all these denominations
have united on missionary lines, and this is just what this Presby-
terian Church has been doing for many years. God has a pur-
pose for us all. That purpose is to get right with God. Re-
peat the following after me :

'The Purpose of God: (1) In Christ. — By Him to recon-
cile all things unto Himself. That He should give eternal life
to all who believe on Him. That He might destroy the works
of the devil. That also He should gather together in one the
children of God that were scattered abroad. That in the dis-
pensation of the fullness of time He might gather together in
one all things in Christ.

(2) In he Church. — That we should be to the praise of His
glory. That we should be holy and without blame before
Him in love. That all may be one. That He might present
it to Himself a glorious Church. That now unto the princi-
palities and powers in heavenly places might be known by
the Church the manifold wisdom of God."

Judge Freeman : "Mr. Hamilton B. Bogue is a charter
member of the church, and the only one who is left here. He
Avas one of the first three elders of the church. In those days
I have heard it said of Mr. Bogue that he made himself a
hewer of wood and a drawer of water for the struggling
infant church. He is now among those who have, in the
words of Webster to the veteran soldiers of the Revolution,
'come down to us from a former generation.' We are glad
of the opportunity to hear from one who has for so many
years been closely identified with the church history.''

Mr. Bogue: "My tongue never obeys when men lend their
ears, so I hope you will indulge me in reading the little I will
say. The foundations of Hyde Park Presbyterian Church
have been builded so deep, so wide, and so solid, that it is
little wonder that the span of its noble life counts fully fifty
years. The pages of this bright primer say this is its Golden
Jubilee Week, that it was born May 6, 1860. I well remem-
ber the bright sunny morning. The little frame chapel, white
with green blinds, seemed a fair structure among the oak
and hazel at the northeast corner of 53d Street and Lake

Avenue. There rested on the gate a generous wreath of the
bright wild flowers so plenty then along the paths every-
where, through the fields and wooded ridges. My mother
said, 'See, there is Grandma Ryan under the trees across the
street, may be she brought it.' She said, 'Yes, I made it for
your church. I can't go inside, but Jesus came for all of us
and He will bless us all alike.' The woman was an Irish
Catholic, working whenever she could for neighbors' families.
Did the humble woman give our young Calvin band a com-
manding example against living in a narrow creed?

"Another incident leading toward wise theology had hap-
pened the previous Friday evening when balloting for our
choice of denomination in which to organize the church. The
first ballot was seven for a Congregational church, four for a
Presbyterian, and one for a Methodist. The Presbyterians
were so astonished and grieved that they were in tears as
they told their disappointment. They had lived here four
years, holding weekly prayer meetings and often Sunday
services in their homes, always believing the church would
be Presbyterian. Paul Cornell had built the church with
faith in the same result ; so confident were they that the
question had not been discussed. There was one Congrega-
tional family having four votes. They quickly conferred with
the other three and a motion was made to reconsider the
ballot. A new one was taken, resulting in eleven Presbyter-
ian votes and one Methodist. Curtiss Bogue was the Meth-
odist. Mr. Cornell urged him to change. He said he ought
not to, as he would not enter the membership ; therefore he
had no right to say what denomination it should be unless
it be Methodist ; but whatever it might be called, it would
make no difference in his work, for he would do all they would
allow him as long as he lived near enough to get to it ; but
for himself he had been converted from careless life into
the Methodist faith as a brand from the fire, and he must
live in it to the end of his days. So with such dedication,
from three great militant creeds, the church has had good
precept for its vigilant guard against narrow, ungenerous ways,
and its well known and admired stand on all questions of religious
principle have been well worthy of its beginning.

"The past years of the church glow bright with unvarying
record of full duty well done. No scar of dissension can be
traced on its pages or recalled in any memory. Trials have
been encountered, but with true hearts and brave courage.

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Frederick A. Brown
A. Miller Belfield
Emil O. Rudert

DEACONS

John C. Riheldaffer
Frederick R. Angrell

Arthur W. Cole

Theron M. Bates

Charles C. Robbins

Those responsible for its fame have so quickly got close to
the troubles, and cured them so thoroughly, that trouble al-
ways vanished, and under Divine help harmonious life and
brave, efificient energy for its duties have continued unhin-
dered ; and through all the passing years the church has in-
creased its service as widening opportunities have multiplied,
and the people whose homes have been within its limits have
gratefully acknowledged its good influence and joined hands
in holding up its bright banner. Surely the able, righteous,
human-hearted pastor whom our good God permits to lead
us now will, Avith the help of the full 900 and more worthy
men and women enrolled in his fold, fulfill the commands
of the Divine ^Master that the fields be well tilled and the har-
vests all gathered.

"Good friends tell me they are glad when they realize that
I have been held in the sacred fold full fifty years. I have
done little indeed to deserve their praise. The high honor of
being held in the membershoip roll of this noble church so
long is very dear to me, and no influence in my life has helped
as that has helped me. It has been one unchanging happy
part of all good that I have known. I was young when first
honored as one of its cup bearers, and that high duty, contin-
uing as it did Avell into my middle age, is a loved and cher-
ished memory. The church associations of all my family
have been within its fold. The noble woman whose happy
heart and pure soul have been the inspiration of my life,
four years sweetheart, forty-three wife, came into its blessed
shelter before she was nineteen. All our three boys and our
daughter were baptized at its altar, and the daughter came
back so that she should be proclaimed a bride at the same
altar. Now with these dear memories filling my heart so
full, I plead that the years that may remain to me may hold
you in such willing charity that I may not be without your
loving regard."

Judge Freeman : "Mr. Fred Kent was for a long time
Superintendent of the Sunday School, and has since been liv-
ing in Huron, North Dakota. We expected him here tonight,
but unfortunately he is unable to come. Dr. Butler has con-
sented to speak in his stead. I might say many good things
about Dr. Butler, but I could not say anything you do not
know. We listen to him with genuine pleasure always, and
we have had the privilege of hearing him in our pulpit on
many occasions."

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Dr. Butler: "I think it is most kind that I have this op-
portunity, as you kindly gave me an opportunity on Sunday,
to take part in your celebration, which I have discovered
means so very much to every one of you, as it ought to with
fifty years of splendid history. This is the occasion for us
to look back upon the past. I could not bring to you any
recollection of a past of any special interest, although my lot
has been cast among Presbyterians, to my very great advan-
tage I am certain, since I have lived in Illinois. But there
are various ways of dealing with the past. Some are inter-
esting and some very stupid. An old friend in Maine, once a
college president, coined a happy word in telling of the past,
as not reminiscences but 'reminuisances." I commend it to
you as you gTOw old. Nevertheless. I can remember some
years ago when I came out here from Maine, the town was
hopefully looking forward to having 300,000 population, and
was disputing with St. Louis.

"I went first to Lake Forest, a college of Presbyterianism,
and I recollect Mr. D. R. Holt, whom some of you will re-
member with great honor, Simeon Reed, Mr. Benedict, Wm.
Henry Smith, and J. A\ Farwell, who are some of the men
known far beyond Chicago in all Presbyterian circles. I could
recall Dr. Kittredge of the old Third Church, and Monroe
Gibson, an embodiment of sunshine, as well as some other
men of energy and men of great power. Then there was Dr.
Herrick Johnson. I am doing pretty well for a man brought
up in the Baptist church, and I count myself very happy to
have known such men, and to have been associated with them
in the university, and to be honored with the acquaintanceship
of so many men in your own church.

I think that our modern conception of the church and of the
function of Christian men in this world is a most fortunate thing.
I do not know any body of men that better embodies the modern
idea of the church and the world and the function of the
church in the world than Dr. Coulter's Bible Class. A man
I met this afternoon referred to the old days when young peo-
ple had to choose between enjoying life and going to heaven.
The two things could not go together. They had to choose.
We do not have to choose ; indeed we feel that if a man can
help transform this world into the Kingdom of God, it is full
proof that he will be in the Kingdom of God."

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no introduction. Yet I cannot but refer to the fact that not
only is he loved and admired for the work which he is doing
in the church with the Men's Bible Class, but he is recognized
the world over as a distinguished scientist. He is, as we all
know, one of the leading men in the University of Chicago,
head of the department of Botany. In him there is no con-
flict between science and Christianity.

Dr. Coulter : "This reminds me somewhat of the uni-
versity alumni banquets which I attend occasionally. The
general program consists of distinguished alumni who have
achieved success of a certain kind and who give us their
reminiscences, and then some fledgling is called out to stand for
the university as it is today. I understand that I am to
play the role of that fledgling tonight. You have had the
representatives of the good old days, and I am to represent
the present day.

"When we trace the history of a church like this, sit-
uated as it is, a witness for Christ for fifty years, a com-
plete transformation is to be expected. We expect a trans-
formation in equipment, which we have ; and a transformation
in numbers, which of course we have ; but it seems to me that
the most significant transformation in this church, as in prac-
tically all churches, is a transformation in the point of view.
In the days that have been recalled to our memories, this
church was in a rural community, in the quiet retirement of
Hyde Park village ; and now it finds itself in the midst of a
great metropolitan community, and the transformation in its
outlook is not only remarkable but inevitable. It is not,
as it once was, a quiet and restful and worshipful sort of a
place, a kind of retirement from the business of the town
into the country. It is a great organization, about which
surge the problems of the metropolis, and it must confront
these problems and help to solve them ; in other words, it
has grown into a new organization with a new outlook. I
have a friend who is fond of using this contrast : that the
church of the olden days was regarded as a cold storage ware-
house, while that of today is a power house. In those old
days the church was regarded as a fold, to protect a timid
flock from the wolves outside ; now it is a training camp,
which is organized to equip men to go out and destroy the
wolves. That figure feebly expresses the attitude of the
church toward the world today.

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that which Christ held, for example, toward the Pharisee's.
Sabbath. Christ found a ritual Sabbath, and he informed the
ecclesiastics of that time that 'the Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath' : and this is our view of the
church today. The church was made for man, and not man
for the church ; and as human need develops, and conditions
are modified, so the church must become adapted to the
changes. The church is not an organization that is fixed and
that must impose itself upon men, an organization to which
men must conform, but it must grow and adapt itself to
human needs as they multiply and shift from generation to
generation. The church today is not an organization com-
pleted and let down from heaven, but it is a great organ-
ization made to meet the needs of man. We have not changed
the emphasis. The old worship function of the church is not
being exchanged for something else, but there is added to
this function what we may call the social service function,
and we recognize in this a broader ministry of service. The
church has begun to recognize the need of the community
and the need of the world, and is beginning to recognize its
own mission. Contrast the little village church with this
great metropolitan organization, which adds to its worship,
and to its far-reaching ministry in foreign lands, the ecjuip-
ment of power which its members may use daily in a great
city. The transformation is marvelous, and I am glad to
recognize that in this church there are hosts of men with this,
larger point of view, who are striving to meet the needs of a
world, and are demanding from the church, as one great
efficient organization that makes for righteousness, not merely
service to the individual, but also service to the community."

Judge Freem.\n: 'Tt would be superfluous to introduce the
next speaker. Some years ago I was sitting by the side of
Dr. John H. Barrows of excellent memory, whom I was soon
to introduce to an audience, and he told me that when lec-
turing in India he was introduced on one occasion somewhat
as follows: T am asked to introduce Dr. Barrows. Shall the
mosquito introduce the elephant?' Tonight I am asked to
introduce our pastor, Dr. Vance. I will present the elephant."

Dr. Vance: "It is a late hour, and I have too many chances
to speak to most of you men to take much time this evening,
but there are two or three things which I wish to say to you
tonight, because it is a rare occasion, and because we cart.

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speak in a very heart-to-heart way. 1 think it is the hrst
time ] have ever faced you men alone.

Before I say anything" direct to you, I want to express in
behalf of our entire congregation our appreciation of those
who liave made our history. We are rehearsing this week
the story of fifty years of struggle into the great throbbing
citv church that we are today ; and as we read it and hear
it, we realize how^ true it is that no great results are born
of little efforts or small sacrifices. We have come to our
great vantage ground today and to our large growth because
of the struggles of that little band of which our honored
senior member is the illustrious representative tonight, and
those who labored with him in pulpit and in pew. We should
enshrine in our hearts, as well as in our memories, the names
of Bradford, Averell, Geo. Bowman, H. A. Hopkins, and that
servant of God, who is represented around this board tonight
by his minister son, Dr. D. S. Johnson ; E. C. Ray, whose
brilliant mind has perhaps not been surpassed by that of any
other Presbyterian minister who has occupied a pulpit in this
city, and who is still striving to labor for the church he
loves, although in too poor health to be with us this evening ;
and our Dr. Herring, who is now carrying the standard of our
sister Congregational Church into the frontiers of this great
nation, and is making his life avail as never before for the
glory of God. These and those who have labored with them
and under their leadership during these past fifty years, we
honor tonight as those whom God has honored with fruitful-
ness, great in their ministry.

"In behalf of the congregation a word of appreciation is
due for the friends who are participating with us in this
happy week ; the pastors from other churches, and this be-
loved man. Dr. Galusha Anderson, who is as dear to us as
if he had been originally a Presbyterian ; and those brethren
who have come to us to share in our delight ; these and the
other brethren we desire to thank very much for participating
with us in this happy week.

"Then I desire to say a word to those who have helped to
make the pastorate of these recent years fruitful to any degree
that it has reached. When Mr. Cole and I went over his
historical address, I said, T want you to say, Mr. Cole, if you
please, that whatever has been accomplished during the past
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more by the hearty cooperation and the united endeavor of
the officers and members of the congregation than on ac-
count of any special leadership they have had in the pastorate
or pulpit.' Mr. Cole said it well, and I want to say it out of
my own heart and with my own lips.

"I came to you ver}- young and inexperienced and very
self-confident. Had I not been both, I should not have under-
taken this pastorate. I shrank from it, but you have met me
with a loving sympathy and a ready support that has over-
ruled my blunders ; and God has made this pastorate one long
love feast, so far as I know. You have been the readiest peo-
ple I ever saw to respond to every call for service or for
money. For example, when I discovered there was no Bible
Class for young men, and there was nothing being done to
help young men, after looking over the congregation I picked
out Dr. Coulter as best calculated to enter into this work and
lay hold of the young men going through a transformation
period in their religion. I knew how busy he was, and what
it would mean to him to take up religious teaching. It would
burden him almost as much as preparing a sermon, but he
said. 'Yes, I will take it.' x\nd never did a man stand to the
Master's work more steadfastly than he has done through all
these years.

"When this work was put on its feet and firmly estab-
lished, I looked about and discovered that there was a tre-
mendous leakage out of our church on the part of boys be-
tween sixteen and twenty-one, which had to be stopped if this
church was to do its work and these young men be saved
for Christ. I went to Merton Robbins, who had never done
any work of this kind. He took the class and made it one of
the institutions of the city, as well as of our church ; and you
men who know him know what these years have meant to
him.

"Now this has been characteristic in every line of work in
this church. It has been a happy pastorate in this. It has
been hard work. There have been times when I have felt
I would have to lie down for sheer lack of physical and men-
tal strength to carry it through, but there was always some
one ready to carry the prayer meetings or to take up any line
of church work and to do it with efficiency. What could a
man do but stand to his guns ; and so I have been with you
in the happiest pastorate I think a man ever had.

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Clarence E. Flanders
Geo. Pairweather
Chae. H. Sagar

DEACONS

Merton C. Robbins
Ralph H. Rice
Thomas Madill

Thomas J. Hair
Fred H. Tracht
Donald Mcintosh

"A word in closing- about the general policy which has been
pursued in the work of these years. I think I can talk to
you in a very heart-to-heart way about this. Every great
church is born of a g;reat purpose, intelligently cherished and
persistently carried out. The growth of this one has not
been reached by haphazard activity either on the part of the
former pastors or on the part of those who have made the
history of the past ten years. It seems to me that the great
fruitfulness of this church for God has lain in the inspiration
of the men and women who composed it, preparing them to
go out into the world and solve the great ethical and social
problems that lie at our doors in this great city, and it has
been my pleasure and purpose in seeking to direct the affairs
of your church to keep that always in mind.

"I believe that a pastor should minister to the needs of the
people rather than make a career for himself. A preacher
should nurture the spiritual life of those to whom he
preaches, rather than try to deliver great orations. Some of
you differ from me in that respect, some of you would much
prefer that your preacher should attempt to preach great
intellectual orations, rather than simply to minister to the
spiritual life of the congregation ; but I cannot agree with
you. I would rather be the poorest kind of a preacher and
yet Sunday after Sunday bring messages to men which help
them in their hour of need to overcome temptations and do
their work and grow sturdy in their Christian character,
than to have the reputation of the greatest pulpit orator in
the land.

"Now this, perhaps, tells the story of the kind of ministry
I have sought to fulfill among you. I came to you a southern
man, though I had spent all of my ministry on the border,
and had no prejudices against northern men or methods.
I was a southern man. I think you have made me a union
man. I think, as I have lived with you and learned to love
you, there has come to me, as never before, to be no north,
no south, no east, no west. And as I have realized year after
year what it meant, that those men who wore the button of
the Loyal Legion or the G. A. R. made up a large part of the
Session that called me from the south to be your pastor, it
has spoken volumes to me and called out my heart's appre-
ciation.

"Then I want to say to you that I think you have done a

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great thing for me in helping me to preach, I would not say
in helping me to become a preacher. What I am as a preach-
er, and I know my weaknesses and limitations as truly
as any of you do, but what I have become as a preacher I
think I owe under God's grace as much to you as I do to
any other human influence that has entered my life ; and I
thank you for it.

"And then last of all I want to say this : that during these
years that I have been with you, I have formed among you
some of the dearest friendships of my life. I suppose I shall
not make friends again like the friends I have made among
you, because after a man passes forty he does not make many
heart-to-heart friends, but your names are scores and legions
almost: I say, 'God bless you all." "

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Wednesday, May Fourth

8 P. M.

MEMORIAL WINDOW

Communion Service

The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was an exceedini^ly
impressive service, and fitly expressed the strong devotional
•spirit that fifty years of Christian activity should infuse into
a church. In the administration of the sacrament, Rev. C.
Harmon Johnson, son of a former pastor, and Dr. Hubert C.
Herring- officiated.

Rev. C. Harmox Johnson : It certainly gives me a
great deal of joy to come once more to the table of our
Lord in this house. I was quite a boy when I first sat
down to the table that Christ spread for us, and it was in the
old church some thirty years ago. When I was asked to
participate tonight I knew that memory would have large
place in what I might say. My mind instinctively turned
to Hebrews, and in the first verse of the 12th chapter, after
the recital which precedes, the writer says, "Wherefore, see-
ing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of wit-
nesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth
so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that
is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith."

The inspiration of a high ideal is brought out in this mar-
velous chapter. God has set before us high ideals ; men and
women who have gone before, whose lives have been pure
and noble, mau}^ of whom, like Paul, have fought the good
fight and finished their course, having kept the faith. These
ideals are before us tonight, furnished by holy writ, and there
are also those tonight furnished by memory, the inspiration
of the high ideal and the inspiration of the witness of them
that looked on. Every boy who has been in athletic games
understands the inspiration of a crowd watching. We realize
tonight that the past days are looking down upon us. There
is need of greater care as we mark out for ourselves our plans
and purposes and seek to carry them out in life.

In a chapel in Germany that old picture of Raphael's,
Madonna of San Sisto, was for many years covered with
dust. Much of its beauty was not seen. When the dust was
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the picture then, that the clouds about the head of the
Madonna and the Babe were full of angel's faces. We have
had the reproduction before us often, but perhaps some of us
have never noticed carefully that the clouds are not clouds,
but angel faces, and they are looking at the Holy Child. God
has given us the blessings of memory to see ranged on the
sky line angel faces, and it cannot but be an inspiration to
the sons and daughters of this church, as well as to the older
ones, to indulge memory at this special time. God has given
it to us for sacred use. I have not looked up the records of
this church to see just who have gone before, but there w'ill
come crowding into the minds of all of you names that came
to my mind last night, as I sat at the supper with tlie men,
and I jotted down a few^ of them. I am sure there were many
others, but these came to my mind as I saw sons of some of
them; others I knew were dear to them, and I imagined I
could see ranged among the cloud of witnesse.*^, loved ones
by the name of Wadsworth, Carmichael, Cornell, Williams,
Stewart, \"an H. Higgins. Hibbard, Barker. Gilchrist. Norton,
Ingraham, Hopkins, Olmsted, Arms, Bennett, Bogue. Nelson, ,
Parsons, Welling. The angel faces are looking on this multi-
tude tonight, and there is no sweeter inspiration f(jr the son or
daughter or loved one than the sweet inspiration of blessed
memory.

After the battles of Sebastopol and Inkerman the soldiers
returned home. The Crimean war had been fought and many
were maimed, and we read that they were brought into the pres-
ence of her Majesty, the Queen, to receive a medal ; and one
came up who Iiad lost an arm and another a leg. and her secre-
tary took in her hands the medal and pinned it upon the lapel
of the old soldier's coat and proudly he passed out from her
presence. But we read of one who was brought before the
Queen whose limits had both been shot off, and he was borne
into her presence and the marks of the war'were upon his face,
the signs of suffering, and she arose from her throne and
walked to his side and with her own fingers pinned the medal
upon his coat, the tears dropping from her eyes. And so it
seems, dear friends, as though in that future time, because of
the promise, we too, like those who have gone before, shall
receive not a medal, but the "Well done, good and faithful
servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

Rev. Hubert C. Herrixg, D. D. : In the tender and lofty
benediction with which we so often close the communion serv-
ile

ice. beginning- "and now may the God of peace," tliere is one
phrase on which I wish to ask you to let your thoughts rest
as we receive the sacramental cup. It is the phrase "our Lord
Jesus." Very large is the little word "our."

It speaks of possession. The wide-ranging relations of the
eternal Christ are left out of view. He may belong to the uni-
verse, to the generations, to the ranks of celestial hosts, to God.
At the communion table we remember that he belongs to us.

It speaks of fellowship. In the solitude of personal need
we come to Him. Along the horizon of individual vision we may
seek to comprehend Him. By the grasp of personal faith we
lay hold upon Him. But gathered around this common table
u-e merge ourselves in a common life and say "our Lord Jesus."

It is a word of repose. Our lives drift on a restless current.
Past us move the scenes of ceaseless change. C)ur treasured
possessions slip from us as the years go by. At the last all are
left behind, and our unclothed souls go out to the realm of mys-
tery. But along down the current and past the changing scene
and through the portals of farewell one possession abides, Jesus
Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, who is our Lord
Jesus.

He is ours because God gave Him to us. In the far counsels
of the eternity gone He was dedicated to our salvation. "God
so loved the world that He gave liis only begotten Son." The
earth is full of purpose. "Not one thing walks with aimless
feet." As these spring days pass and the miracle of nature's
resurrection from the dead is once more wrought, there is not
a leaf or twig or swelling bud which does not plainly have its
goal. But in all the wide world nothing is more clear than the
convergence of every line of the divine purpose upon Jesus the
Christ. The redemption of men in Him is the kev to the world's
long and vexed story.

He is ours because He won us. We had not possessed Him
if He had not first possessed us. By His sovereign conquest of
our hearts He made us His. He broke us down and within us
was born the desire that He should be ours. We began to say,
and we shall never g'et beyond saying, in the words of that sweet
hymn which sprang from the trusting heart of Dr. Ganse :

"It was no love of mine, dear Lord, "And now I hold Thee by no bands

Which w^on Thy love to me. Of .saintly prayer or deed,

On me were Thy compassions poured I hold Thee by these trembling hands.

From the accursed tree. These hands of sin and need.

"Saviour and sinner we have met,
And meeting" shall not part.
The blood that bought me claims me

yet,
Christ has me in His heart."

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But the converse is also true. He is ours because we have
accepted Him. We who wait here in the hush of the sacramental
hour believe that Christ is ours because we believe that we are
Christ's. There came a time to each of us somewhere in the days
gone by when in our inmost hearts we began to say our Lord
Jesus. Perhaps it was back in the mists of the beginning of
childish consciousness. Perhaps it was later, after we had for
long years barred Him from our hearts. But sometime, some-
where, we accepted God's gift of Jesus Christ. The choice thus
made we have ratified by many a vow, and we hope, though
upon us rests heavy the consciousness of our small desert.
We are here tonight once more to say in sacramental speech
that we claim for our own the abounding fulness of the Son
of God.

A friend of mine, once student in Berlin, tells how the keen
scholar and critic Adolph Harnack, lecturing one day upon the
gracious and glorious character of Christ, seemed suddenly to for-
get the time and place and company, and, stepping back from
his desk with upraised e}es, cried out "Jesu mein Herr!''
"Jesus my Master!" Alay God give to our waiting eyes such
freshened vision of His holy face tonight that we shall say
with longing desire, old and yet new, "Jesu mein Herr."

He is ours because He has come to abide with us and in us.
Strange beyond measure are the words which by warrant of the
New Testament we take upon our lips : "Lo I am with you al-
way." "I live and yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." "Until
Christ be formed in you the hope of glory." No philosophies
take account of this. No science has place for its mystery. But
to some of us who know of an inner power which upholds, of an
inner life which recreates, of an inner light which goes not out,.
it is the surest of realities. By it the sin and folly which beset
us have been defrauded of their prey. By it sorrow and mis-
fortune have been shorn of their power to harm. It is Jesus, our
Lord Jesus, who has brought us the gift of Himself.

Between today and the days when you and I worked and
worshipped together as pastor and people, the gulf of years is
widening fast. Your lives are thronged with interests and cares,
and mine in like way. But as we gather here, we touch one
another across the gulf and through the cares in many a tender
memory, and above all by our common relation to our common
Lord. From full hearts we join again in saying "our Lord
Jesus." We look forward to the time when earth's hopes and
dreams shall find fruition "forever with the Lord.''

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Friday, May Sixth

Congregational Gathering

Friday was the anniversary date, and it was fittingly com-
memorated by a congregational gathering under the auspices of the
women's societies of the church.

Dr. Vance read the following letter of regret from Rev. E. C.
Ray, D. D., one of our former pastors:

The College Board, 156 Fifth Ave.,

Ne— York, Feb. 14, 1910.
My dear Dr. Vance :

Your very kind invitation to me to preach the historical sermon con-
nected with the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Hyde Park
Church on Sunday, the first of May, must, with regret that I cannot
express, be declined. How much I should like to be there it is impossible
to put into words. But during the last fourteen months my strength has
not been adequate to the work which needed doing while we were without
a secretary; and, while we have a secretary coming, and the one man in
America I wanted for the place, he is not yet here, and will have a great
accumulation of affairs to handle when he comes, beside the closing of
our year and preparing for the General Assembly, in all of which mat-
ters I must try to carry my share. I have neither time nor strength
that I could give to the preparation of a sermon, nor could I possibly be
absent from New York at that time, as our spring meeting of the Board
will occur May 3.

I could add a good many words, but what's the use? That I cannot be
with you is one of the trials that I mtist bear the best I can. One thought
will constantly help ; the knowledge of the progress, in every way, in the
church that is attending your faithful and fruitftil ministry there. With a
thousand happy memories and best wishes, I am

Cordially vours,

E. C. Ray.

Letters of regret from the following- friends were also read:

Rev. Chas. H. Bixby, Pastor Bmer- Rev. Chas. R. Hemphill.

itus St. Paul's Epis. Ch. Rev. W. S. Plumer Bryan.

Rev. W. H. Wray Boyle. Rev. John Newton Freeman.

Rev. Geo. N. Luccock. Rev. Geo. B. Safford.

Rev. Wm. C. Covert. Rev. Frank M. Carson.

Rev. John Balcom Shaw. John N. Mills.

Clifford W. Barnes. Rev. C. S. Nickerson.

Rev. James Mac Lagan. Rev. W. W. Moore.

Rev. Duncan O. Milner. Rev. F. T. McFaden.

Rev. Marion G. Cole. Samuel West.
Rev. E. S. Fairchild.

The formal part of the program consisted of an historical ad-
dress by Mrs. J. F. Gilchrist, which was abundantly illustrated
by lantern slides showing the faces of old members and views of
the former church and of Hyde Park. Mrs. Gilchrist's address

follows :

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"l.ong j'ears have flown since first we met

In the old church that stood in the shade.
Gray hairs have come, but we'll ne'er forget

The good old times when we sang and prayed.
We yet hear birds that sang each day,

While prayers and songs floated softly away
From the old church that stood in the shade.

No stained windows reflected the light,
Nor was pulpit in velvet arrayed ;

Yet every heart was cheerful and light,
In the old church that ?tood in the shade."

This hardly reads like a description of the
Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, yet the above
lines were written many years ago by a for-
mer superintendent of the Sabbath school,
Mr. James P. Root. The old church stood in
a grove of oak trees at the corner of Oak
street and Hyde Park avenue. It was a
quaint little building with a A—shaped roof.
The double doors opened upon a center aisle flanked on either
side by hard wooden benches. Halfway down on one side was
a short bench seating but two, the organist and the choirmaster,
and in the space thus made were the little melodeon and the
big wood stove that smoked sadly when the wind blew from
the east.

At first, all denominations worshipped together, but as they
grew in numbers they divided, the Presbyterians meeting in the
morning and the Episcopalians in the afternoon. One cold win-
ter's day, tradition states, the Episcopal congregation had to
return to their homes, as the Presbyterians had burned all the
Episcopal wood, and there was a famous mock trial in Flood's
Hall, where the prisoner was brought in dragging a great
log to which he was chained.

The churchyard was enclosed with a picket fence, and from
the gate a two-plank walk led to the front door. When the
building was dedicated, the gate posts were decorated with great
wreaths of beautiful wild flowers and the pulpit was banked with
many lovely blossoms gathered from the nearby woods and
fields. Those who saw the pretty sight have never forgotten it.
The lot was donated and the chapel built in 1858 by Mr. Paul
Cornell, the "father of Hyde Park," and on May 6, 1860, the
First Presbyterian Church of Hyde Park was organized with
sixteen members. In eight years the congregation outgrew the
chapel, so another location was secured at the corner of Adams
avenue and Oak street. Religious worship was held in the old

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chapel for the last time on April 3. 1S7(>. As our poet regret-
fully remarks,

"They moved it away and cut down the grove,

Not a bird nor a prayer has stayed :
Nothing to mark the spot we love,

Where the old church stood in the shade."

As a matter of fact, the church was only moved around the
corner of the lot and faced upon Hyde Park avenue instead of
Oak street. It became the Town Hall, and a strong- basement was
built imderneath to accommodate prisoners. The Hyde Park
jail still occupies the spot. The old building was moved to 79th
Place and Madison avenue in 1892, where it was used as a hotel
during the World's Fair. It has since been burned. As a church,
jail and World's Fair boarding house it has been quite a factor
in the discipline of the world.

Once upon a time there was a little girl whose earliest recol-
lections of life began on Hyde Park avenue. Hyde Park avenue
has long since changed its name to Lake avenue, and Oak street
to 53rd street, and Adams avenue to Washington avenue. Then
there were beautiful flowers in the gardens and roses clambered
over the front porches. Just outside of her back yard was a ter-
lible monster that went to and from the city of Chicago four times
a day. Every time she heard the engine coming she would scam-
per into the house just as fast as she could go, because she was
sure that if it ever got off the track it would come right into
the yard and chase her. On the other side of the Illinois Central
right of way were the great big woods, so dense that she knew
there were bears and wolves there. Her neighbor on the south
was Mr. Hinckley, on the north was Dr. Flood. Across the street
were the Campbells and Major Cole. North of the Coles were
the Hibbards and the Bogues. Now Major Cole was a wonder-
ful man, an evangelist, and in the estimation of this little girl he
was of more importance than the Apostle Paul.

She started to school at the old Seminary Building on Hyde
Park avenue opposite the jail, and it was a fearful and fascinat-
ing thing- for the scholars to run over and peek in the windows to
see who was locked up. Her teacher was Mrs.
Parsons, whose picture we must show, because
she started so many of the boys and girls who
grew up in this church on the royal road to
knowledge. She taught the first grade in the
Hyde Park public schools for forty years.
Mrs. Parsons attended this church, as did her
Mrs Parsons. father aufl mother, Mr. and Mrs. Silas R. Ball.

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It was a proud day for the little girl when the first few grades
were accomplished and she was advanced enough to attend the
Kenwood school, where she completed the grammar school course
and entered the high school. It may be inter-
esting to know that the old Kenwood school
was removed to the southwest corner of 55th
street and Jefiferson avenue, and is now occu-
pied by a drug store.

Every Sabbath morning the little girl went
with her father and mother to the "stone
church." It w^as built when basement houses
were fashionable. The Sabbath school rooms were in the lower
part, but the preaching was in the great room upstairs. There
were some very queer but beautiful letters, pink and blue and
gold, on the wall in a half circle over the pulpit, outlining the
organ pipes, and they read "Let the People Praise Thee, O God.
Let all the P^eople Praise Thee." The church had a most won-
derful steej^le. It was so tall that it seemed to touch the sky, and
the bell that pealed from it w'as given to the church by Pastor
Johnson's father. And at the very tip of the top was a great
golden cross that glistened in the sunshine ; altogether it was a
marvelous steeple. One Saturday afternoon the little girl was
looking out of the window^ watching a dreadful storm. There
was a whirling black cloud just over the church, and even as she
looked the steeple bent, described a semi-circle in the air, and
crashed to the ground a s])lintered ruin. It was rebuilt, but not
so high. Our poet immortalizes the famous steeple thus :

"And we built a steeple that touches the sky,
And otherwise made a tremendous parade,

And thus we expected to ascend on high.

But not from the church that stood in the shade."

Alas, how often pride goeth before a fall !

After the morning service came Sabbath school. Major Cole
w^as then the superintendent. The little girl's father and mother
were among the Sunday school workers, so she was enrolled in
the infant class, led by Mrs. James P. Root and Mrs. Fasset.
Mrs. Root was one of the most efficient women of the early
church, and her home was the scene of many a gathering. Mr.
Fasset was Chicago's leading photographer, and Mrs. Fasset
herself was an artist of no mean ability. A large painting of
her's adorns one of the walls in the Capitol at Washington. Every
Sabbath afternoon the little girl went with her father over to
Pastor Johnson's house, where her father hitched up the pastor's

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horse. He needed a horse in those days, for the parish was wide
and the houses were scattered from the city Hmits at 39th street
south to 67th street. Streets were unhghted and unpaved.
One had to carry a lantern to get safely to church at night, for
Hyde Park then was not as it is now.

South Park was called Woodville. To the west was p^gan-
dale, where the dogtooth violets grew in abundance and where
the boys searched for birds' nests. Then came the pine woods,
the only place to find the yellow violet. Across the dummy track
on 55th street was Gansell's prairie, the home of the dainty white
violet, where the boys played ball in summer and the children
skated in winter. South of Gansell's prairie, the Midway Plai-
sance was a plaisance indeed, not a straight road connecting
Jackson and Washington Parks, but a beautiful, shady, winding
driveway through an oak grove, where grew the very finest wild
strawberries.

To return to our story. When the pastor's horse was hitched,
the little girl and her father drove to Woodlawn, to a white
country school house with green blinds, and there her father con-
ducted a Sabbath school that grew into the Woodlawn Presby-
terian Church. And the little girl grew old enough to teach a
class in the Park Side Sunday school, the next home missionary
enterprise of the church. After that school had also grown into
a self-supporting church, the young people who had been teach-
ing there went to work Sunday afternoons in Rosalie Hall, and
the little girl's father and Mr. Henry Osborne rented a store on
55th street, where they conducted weekly meetings. From these
two beginnings resulted the South Park (University) Congrega-
tional Church.

A small boy came home from the Hyde Park Presbyterian
Sunday School one day with a little picture card, and he said,
"Mother, please read this to me." So the mother read, "Pray
without ceasing,'' and the small boy said, "I do, don't I?" Now
the First Presbyterian Church of Hyde Park understood the
meaning of that text better than the small boy. It was a pray-
ing church. There was always a little prayer meeting before
the big one every Wednesday evening, to ask that God's bless-
ing might rest upon the meeting that was to follow. After the
midweek service there was a half hour meeting for the Sabbath
School teachers, and after Sabbath School on Sunday there was
a ten-minute prayer meeting.

Besides the Young People's Association, Major Cole hid
banded the young men of the church into a society called "The
Yoke Fellows of Hyde Park." The Yoke Fellows distributed

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tracts, and put up racks in the old Hyde Park depot, and in the
Kenwood and Woodlawn depots, and in the old dummy station
on 55th Street, containing tracts and a fine copy of the New
Testament. The little girl possesses the Testament that used to
be in the old Hyde Park railway station.

Sweetest of all was the girls' prayer meeting. In 1879 Pas-
tor Johnson's dear wife gathered the girls into her house and
taught them how to pray. The sweet influence
of these weekly meetings, when timidly brave
they prayed in turn, will never cease. Then
the mothers had their meetings, where they
discussed problems and prayed for the chil-
dren. Thev met every other week. One week
was the ladies' prayer meeting, and the other
was the mother's meeting. Every mother was
pledged to teach her children a certain num-
ber of Bible verses and a hymn each month. There were eight
mothers who were always there. Perhaps the mother who was
most interested in the meetings and most helpful to the others
was JNIrs. James M. Gilchrist. We think we are busy now, but
just glance over this weekly calendar with me.

Mrs. D. S. Johnson.

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flRST-^ iRBSBYT&RI/5N "^ iUURCH.

CORNER FIFTY-THIRD STREET AND WASHINGTON AVE.. HYDE PARK.

Edward C. Ray, Pastor,

WEEKLY CALENDAR, MAR. 14 - 20.

Sunday. — Preaching; by the Pastor 10:30 a. m. Annual collection for the Presbyterian Hospital.
Young Men's Meeting, 9:45 a. m. The lame man Healed. Acts iii: i-il.
Sunday-School, noon. See other side. Teachers' Prayer Meeting after school.
Park Side Sunday-School, 3:10 p. m.
Norwegian Preaching in the church, 4 p. m.
Young People's Meeting, 6:45 p.m. How should you see and hear? Matt.

xiii: 15-16.
Park Side Chapel service, 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday. — The Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society Annual Meeting, at the Church Parlors,

3 p. m., led by Mrs. W. H. Ray. Mexico and Gauiemala.
Wednesday. — The Ladies' Aid Society, Mrs. Srtiith's. 2917 52d St., i p. m. Articles left from-
the Paper Festival will be on sale at this and later meetings.
Social Prayer Meeting, 7:45 p. m. Three searching questions. Micah ii: 7.

Bring scripture answers to them.
Teachers' Meeting, 8:45 P- ™- See other side.
Thursday. — The Annual Praise Meeting of the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society, in the

Lecture Room, 3 p. m.
Friday. — The Girl's Missionary Society Annual Meeting, 4 p. m.. Miss Gilchijisls, 5400 Wash-
ington Ave. Mexico and Gauteniala.
Saturday. — The Young Ladies' Missionary Society Monthly Meeting, 3 p. m., at Miss Camer-
on's, 2711 51st St. Mexico and Gautemala.
The next communion will be Sunday, June 6th.

YOU ARE CORCrlALLY INVITED TO ALL SERVICES.

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SUNDAY SCHDDL TEACHERS MEETING.

CONDUCTED BY THE SDPERINTENDENT.

Wednesday Evening Mar. 17th.

Lbssdh for Sunday, Mar, 21st,

MESSIAH'S MESSENGER. - Mal. iii : i-6 : iv : i-6.

GOLDEN TEXT,- Mal. Hi; i.

Malachi,

The messenger to prepare the way, v. i, -

The need and promise of the Saviour, v. i — (

His work with His people, v. 2 — 4,

His condemnation of sinners, v. 5-^6 and i,

Reward of righteousness, v. 2 — 4.

" Elijah (he prophet," v. 5 — 6.

" The great and dreadful day," v. 5,

Practical lessons, - - . .

Miss Ida Chapin.

Miss Carmichael

.Miss Annie Butts.

Mr. St^wari'.

Mr. Barker.

- Mrs. Olin.

Miss Joh.sston.

Mr. Harlick.

Mr Arms.

Teachers to whom parts are assigned, are requested to prepare written notes if
possible. This tends to conciseness, and better enables us to utjilize the time. Papers not
to e:tceed three minutes in length.

Every one cordially invited; teachers expected.

Sunday School at 12 o'clock noon every Sabbath. New scholars always welcome.

Bibles and Lesson Helps at the Presbyterian Book Rooms, t37 Wabash Avenue.

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Of the nine people who took part in this teacher's meeting,
only three are living", and none of them attend the church at
the present time.

I wish you could see and know the people of this village
church as that little girl knew them. They were a remarkable
company. In the early days, before she was born, David Swing
preached to the congregation and was invited to become its pas-
tor, but did not accept. It was just before the Civil War that
the church was organized, and two fine young men, Mr. Charles
W. Everett and Mr. Curtiss Bogue, marched away from it to
fight for freedom's cause. The one, Mr. Everett, received a mor-
tal wound at the battle of Belmont ; the other, Mr. 'Bogue. re-
turned home only to meet as tragic a death in the wreck of the
Illinois Central Hyde Park train in 18G2. There was yet
another, a mere lad, Leonard, the only son of Elder and Mrs.
Hassan Hopkins, who also went to war and died, a victim of the
dread southern fever.

As we have already mentioned, a melodeon furnished the
music for the little white chapel in the grove. Mr. Henry C.
Work, a charter member of the church, played it. He frequently
went to the church to practice, for as yet he had no piano in his
Hyde Park home, and he was working on a new war song. Right
willingly the little melodeon did its part, and the finished song,
"Marching Through Georgia" was shown to Mr. George F. Root
of the famous firm of Root & Cady, who published it. Mr. Cady
led the singing in "The Little Old Church in the shade." And
after the stone church was built, Mr. George F. Root, the author
of "The Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the
Boys Are Marching,'' and many other war songs, conducted
therein a weekly song service.

Then there was Norman B. Judd, who nominated "the rail
splitter and giant killer of Illinois," Abraham Lincoln, for the
presidency of the United States ; and Claudius B. Nelson, in
memory of whom we have our beautiful organ. Judge Homer
N. Hibbard, president of the village school board, and Judge
Erastus S. Williams, who gave "money, wisdom and love" to
the Hyde Park church. There was Mr. S. P. Farrington. Super-
intendent of the Sunday School in 1871, whose big house and
whose big purse were always open ; and Mr. Granville S. Ingra-
ham, who bought the Farrington homestead in 1872. Many
names might be mentioned, but the little girl remembers most
lovingly those who worked in the Sunday School. There was
Mr. Barker, the first to greet the stranger within the gates;
and Mr. Home, who looked as if lie might have stepped out of

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the Old Testament, who knew his Bible by heart, and often
preached a sermon; and his next door neighbor, Mr. Car-
michael, who rented two pews ; one for his family and the
other that the poor and the stranger might always find a wel-
come place, and Mr. George Stewart : At a recent midweek
service the topic for discussion was, "Can a board of trade
man be a Christian?" for those who knew Mr. Carmichael
and Mr. Stewart the question is answered. Mr. Ott
always carved the turkey at the church dinners. Mr. Olm-
sted's blameless Christian life was an inspiration to the large
class of boys he taught. Mr. Arms was so much to us in so
many ways that we have not words to express our apprecia-
tion. Mr. Ware was always ready with a compliment. Mr.
Welling was "a man sent from God whose name was John,"
only Mr. Welling was more like John the beloved than John
the messenger. And Mr. W. H. Ray's short life of 31 years,
like that of the Man of Nazareth, was crowded with an influ-
ence that no one can measure. He was principal of the Hyde
Park High School, as well as assistant Superintendent of the
Sabbath School. There is but one word, "service," in the
memorial wandow in the Sabbath School room. It was the
life motto of all of these men. They truly walked with God
and made others feel His presence. As for the little girl, to
paraphrase from Lowell,

"My, when they made Old Hundred ring!
She knowed the Lord was nigher."

A small boy, who was just beginning to use the contents
of his tool chest, was very much disturbed because a friend,
supposedly a Christian, did something that he did not approve.
His mother tried to explain the difference between nominal
Christians and real Christians, and the little boy remarked,
"Mrs. So and So is a nailed down tight Christian, isn't she?"
If the men of the church w^ere nailed dowm tight Christians,
the women were no less so. The first organization was "The
Ladies' Missionary Society" in ISGD. Mrs. Norman B. Judd
was the mother of this organization. If we could only
show you these women in their youth and beauty ! Mrs.
Judd at that time was tall and very slender, with dark hair,
and a clear delicate skin. She had a beautiful face that ex-
pressed her lovely character. The society met at her home on
Forty-seventh Street, in the house that was afterward used by
the Kenwood Club. Mrs. C. B. Nelson, to whom the success

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of the society was largely due. was the lirst president. Mrs.
George Stewart, who seemed to the little girl the very person-
ification of womanly virtue, was also president for a time.
She attended many a 8:irls' meeting at Mrs. Stewart's lovely
home. Mrs. Hitchcock was the treasurer for many years

Mr.s. Norman B. .Jurtd

Mrs. Geo. Stewart

because she had a horse and could get around to collect the
dues, for the money was raised by weekly pledges. Mrs.
Hitchcock's mother, Mrs. McClure, was a wonderful worker,
not only in the Missionary Society, but in the Ladies' Aid as
well. Her laces and her caps were so dainty, and she pieced such
lovely silk quilts, that were sold for the benefit of the societies,
and she invented the McClure apron, the sale of which brought
many a dollar into the treasury of the Ladies' Aid Society.

If Mrs. Judd was the mother of the Ladies' Missionary
Society, Mrs. Hassan Hopkins, "Auntie Hop,'' as she was afifec-
tionately called, was the foster mother. Her husband was the
senior elder of the church, for they were charter members, and
he always held the baptismal bowl. He held it when the little
girl was baptized. Auntie Hop was not ashamed to take her
pail and scrub brush over to the chapel on Saturday and scrub
it clean for Sunday, and she made the bread for the com-

Mrs. Has.san Hopkins

Mrs. C. B. Nelson

munion services. Mrs. Hopkins and her daughter Annie were
the kind of women who invite little folks into the kitchen,
so the little girl remembers her coc^kies better than her mis-
sionarv meetings, but she was alwavs there. Then there was

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"Grandma Bogue." Auntie Hop and Grandma Bogue were
for years the coffee committee. Grandma Bogue was a real
mother in Israel. She collected many a dollar for the church,
and her sons cheerfully did the janitor work in the little
chapel, sweeping it out, shining the lamps, and building the
fires. The little girl was well acquainted with Grandma

Grandma Bogue Mrs. John Renimer Mrs. James Wadsworth

Bogue, because she trudged over there every morning with a
tin pail for milk. Mrs. John Remmer was another charming-
woman whose heart and home were always open to the
church workers ; and Mrs. James W'adsworth came way from
Woodlawn to attend the meetings.

The Ladies' Aid Society was organized in 1<S74 by Mrs.
Judd and her close friend Mrs. Van H. Higgins. They came
to Hyde Park from Dr. Patterson's church, the Second Pres-
byterian, on the northeast corner of Wabash Avenue and
Washington Street. Before the Chicago fire, Wabash
Avenue used to be called the Avenue of Churches. The Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church was our mother church, and helped
us in many ways until we were able to stand alone. Beautiful
Mrs. Higgins. with her cameo face and white curls, was
always the Martha Washington at the annual colonial din-
ners given by the Ladies' Aid Society. At the time of her
death, September 1882, she was still president.

At first the societies met together and listened to a mis-
sionary program while they sewed for the poor. Its objects,
as then stated, were systematic visitation of strangers, the
promotion of the social conditions of the church, and reliev-
ing the wants of the poor. After the death of Mrs. Higgins,
Mrs. Talcott was president of the society. It was during
her presidency that the ladies met together, day after day, and
made up the carpet for the Sunday School room ; a tremen-
dous task, worthy to be recorded in the archives of the church.

There were several girls' societies in the old stone church,
the best known of Avhich were the Reapers and the Gleaners.

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The Reapers comprised the older o;irls or young ladies,
and was organized in 1873. The Gleaners were the little girls
of Mrs. Farrington's Sunday School Class in 1871. And
singly, or together, they used to give famous entertainments.
Dr. George F. Root once wrote a song for the busy little
Gleaners to sing at one of them.

"Gleaners in the harvest field, raise your festal lay ;
Here, amid the golden grain, celebrate the day.
Let each heart of thankfulness to the Master come,
Singing forth his blessed praise for the Harvest Home.

"When the harvest time is past and the day is done,
When we all must leave our work at the set of sun ;
Then, amid the golden glow of the autumn leaves.
May we quit the field with joy, bringing home the sheaves.

"Saviour, bless thy little Gleaners,
Let thy kingdom come."

The Reapers once gave the tragic tale of the Mistletoe
Bough in the church parlors. During the first scene a minuet
was danced, greatly to the consternation of the staid Scotch
Presbyterians in the audience ; but Mrs. C. B. Nelson poured
oil upon the troubled waters by saying "that wasn't dancing,
that was simply meandering to music."

It was the custom of the church ladies to give a picnic in
the park at the foot of 53rd Street every Fourth of July to
raise money for the stone church. The men would sell tick-
ets among their friends down town or on the Illinois Central
train. The Illinois Central gave them special rates, and it seemed
as if almost the whole city of Chicago attended. It was at one
of these Fourth of July picnics that the lemonade got salted.
The day was hot, supplies soon fell short, and every-
body was thirsty, so they had to take the ice used for
freezing the ice cream to cool the lemonade. They washed
it off to the best of their ability, but it salted the lemonade
sufficiently to make everybody more thirsty, and they kept
coming back for more. It was a great occasion and netted
the ladies $1100. They thought it rather mean that they
should monopolize the park every July Fourth (or else the
lemonade troubled their consciences), for the next year the
ladies of the Episcopal Church served the refreshments and
realized the profits, and after that for a number of years the two
societies alternated.

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In 1883, when Dr. Sheldon Jackson organized the Woman's
Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, a Home
Missionary Committee was appointed in connection with the
Ladies' Missionary Society. ]\Irs. Joseph N. Barker, who
in her sweet, quiet way was a power for good in this com-
munity, was the chairman of this Committee. It was also in
1882 that Madam Cole organized the Girls' Missionary So-
ciety, and Miss Annie Butts was made president of the
Young Ladies' Missionary Society. It is impossible to write
a history of the ^lissionary Societies without eulogizing
Madam Cole. She was wrapped up in them, and they were
strengthened and sustained by her. Miss Annie Butts was
also a woman of wide influence, as a teacher
in the Sabbath School, a teacher in the 54th
Street school, and afterwards as the head of
the Kenwood Institute. iMrs. A. P. Willough-
bv was so interested in missions that she gave
the Alissionary Society a beautiful library.
Mrs. Jacobs was such an efficient worker in
all of the societies that at the time of her death

Miss Annie Butts _ 111 ,-.- 1 • 1

Mr. Ray preached a beautitul memorial ser-
mon, comparing her to Dorcas.

In 1884, when the Presbyterian Hospital was founded, some-
body was wise enough to plan a Ladies' Aid Society to act with
the Hospital Board. This churcii was one of the first to respond
to the call for members, and Mrs. Lodge, Mrs. Willoughby, Mrs.
Leland, Mrs. Walter Nelson, and Mrs. Charles Root were among
those who attended the first meeting held at the Third Church,
to make up bed and table linen for the new hospital.

In 1883 the Young Ladies' Society joined with the young
men and formed the Young People's Association, and this society
and the Ladies' Missionary Society fitted out Miss Sadie C. Wirt
for her long missionary journey to Laos. She is still there, but
we know her as Airs. Peoples.

When Mrs. Charles Root came to Hyde Park from a large
working Home Missionary Society in St. Louis, our Home Mis-
sionary Committee seemed inadequate to her, so she interested
a few ladies to enlarge the work and form a Home Missionary
Society. Mrs. M. L. Beers was one of the first women to co-
operate with Mrs. Root, and it is said that the first meeting was
held and the society organized in her parlors. When Mrs. Beers
moved into her new home on Jefiferson Avenue she threw it open
for a musical and a tea at which fifty dollars was raised for the
society. Of the first meeting Mrs. Root writes: "Madam Cole

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was chairman and Mrs. Alvord our spiritual adviser." Mrs. Beers
was elected president and Mrs. Jayne and others the Executive
Committee. Mrs. Hibbard was the secretary and Mrs. LesHe
Lewis was the treasurer for a number of years. The first Home

Mrs. M. L. Beers

Madame Alvord

Madame Cole

Missionary sent out by the society was Miss Albertine Butts
(sister of Miss Annie), who went to work among the freedmen
at the Mary Allen Seminary of Crockett, Texas.

There were many other helpful women in the early days of
the church, but time forbids their mention. No picture would be
complete, however, without "Aunt Libbie Coffin." She went
from door to door, collecting the mite boxes for the Missionary
Societies, or selling aprons for the Ladies' Aid, and she pre-
sented everybody in town, including Inspector Nicolas Hunt,
with a small pocket pin cushion made with her own hands.

We have no records of the earliest meetings of these women's
societies, but they are written above.

"And when God sliall come in glory and peace

To collect all the debts we have made,
He'll surely grant us a full release

Because of the church that stood in the shade."

After Mrs. Gilchrist's address, the audience adjourned to the
lecture room for an informal meeting, at which short talks were

Mrs. L. A. Tahott

"Aunt Libbie" Coffin

Mis. Van H. Higgiiis

given by Dr. Vance, Dr. Galusha xAnderson, Major Cole, Charles
L. Boyd, and Leslie Lewis. The evening closed with refresh-
ments and a social hour. Among those present were the fol-
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Saturday, May Seventh

REV. HOWARD D. FRENCH

ASSISTANT MINISTER AND

BIBLE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT

At 4:00 p. m. the younger classes of the Bible School met to
hear something of the history of the church, and to enjoy a social
hour. Mrs. J. F. Gilchrist showed them the same stereopticon
pictures that she had used in connection with her address before
the congregation on the preceding evening. Her talk to the chil-
dren, while presenting essentially the facts contained in lier Fri-
day evening paper, was skillfully modified and adapted to her
youthful audience.

The Bible School

Most churches of any consequence have had their beg^in-
ning-, during recent generations, in the Sunday-school. Here
a few earnest and devoted Christians in a sparsely settled
neighborhood have gathered together the children and pur-
sued the study of God's A\^ord. The beginning has in many
cases been very insignificant in the matter of numbers. Fre-
quently the work has grouped itself around some one or two
families or even individuals ; but the worship and word of
God have meant much to them, and religious influences were
considered of prime importance. This beginning has given
God's Spirit a material and mental foothold, as it were, and
the Sunday-school thus modestly begun, but faithfully sup-
ported, has almost invariably grown into a church and gone
forth to shape the moral and spiritual ideals and determine
the social customs of the community.

Such was the beginning of the Hyde Park Presbyterian
church ; and the story which follows from the pen of one of
this school's devoted and successful superintendents most
modestly expresses the part which men whose names and pic-
tures appear on pages 153 and loO of this volume have had
in making the history and creating the present spiritual ac-
tivities of this church.

Even less is it able to show in an article like this the pa-
tient devotion and wise efificiency of the other officers and
teachers who have labored with these superintendents.

The school has been notable also for the societies of mis-
sion workers which have been organized among its pupils
and have flourished through most periods of its history, ref-
erences to some of which are made in the article which fol-
lows.

An additional word should be written about the present
comprehensive and efficient organization of the school. Dur-
ing the past eleven years there has been organized The
Men's Bible Class, taught throughout this period by Prof.

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Jno. M. Coulter, Ph. D.. of the Session of the Church. This
class has pursued lines of sociological study and has been re-
markably effective along practical lines, both in launching and
developing the Boys' work at Association House, and in forms
of settlement and mission work in our own community. At
present the class is taking active part also in establishing a
work for boys and girls at Hyde Park Center.

The Young Women's Bible Class was organized during this
period by Mrs. Henry V. Freeman as teacher, and has been
well directed by her successors, by Mrs. Jno. M. Coulter, and
the present teacher, Mrs. Ambrose V. Powell. This class has
been very fruitful, also in its activities at Association House
Settlement, where it now maintains the library, and in various
activities nearer home. A great addition to the school launched
subsequent to the organization of these, were the Bible
classes for boys and girls of the high-school age. The P. B. C.
is the oldest of these, in which the young men were taught by
Mr. Merton C. Robbins, and since his removal to New York
City, by Mr. Geo. O. Fairweather. This has become one of
the famous organizations of our school. Rivalling this, how-
ever, are the Reed Bible Class, named after and taught by
Miss Mary Reed, and the McCulloh Bible Class, taught by
the former superintendent and present elder, Mr. T. G. Mc-
Culloh. These are both large in numbers and active in re-
ligious and social work. All of these are doing a great work
in training for full efficiency the future leaders in the varied
forms of activity of our church. It is impossible to trace the
lines of influence that have gone out in the last fifty years
from the training of this school, but of multitudes who have
stood for truth and right from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from Canada to Mexico, it can be said. This man was born
of them ; for the pupils of this school can be found today, try-
ing to live out into daily life its teachings, in almost, if not
quite, every state of our union. In view of these things it is
felt that the following details of the school's history are
worthy of permanent preservation.

More than fifty years ago, in a little frame building at the
northeast corner of Lake avenue and Fifty-third street, a
Sutiday-school was conducted each week which was destined
to become one of the strongest and most flourishing Presby-
terian Sunday-schools in Chicago. In those early days Mr.
Curtiss Bogue conducted the school and acted as its superin-
tendent until he enlisted in the army in the spring of 1861.
While in the service he was stricken with fever and came home

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S. Curtiss Bogue

1861
James P. Root

June 1861-1862
Homer N. Hibbard

1S63-1S64

SUPERINTENDENTS

Chas. A. Norton

1S65-1S6S
Geo. M. Bogue

1S69-1870
Samuel p. Farrington

ISTl-lSTl'

James H. Cole

1873-1875
Joseph N. Barker

1S76-1S78
Samuel West

1879-1881

to recuperate, and in an Illinois Central railroad wreck, on the
eighth of January, 1862, he lost his life.

In these very early days great hardships were endured by
the settlers in this Hyde Park section in attending Sunday
services. Many came long distances, picking their way over
sloughs and sometimes during the rainy season were com-
pelled to make wide detours in order to reach the chapel.
There was great danger on a dark night of stepping from the
sidewalk on Fifty-third street into the deepest mire. A horse
went down on the corner of Fifty-third street and Madison
avenue and perished in the quicksand before he could be res-
cued. What changes have been witnessed during the years,,
in this now thickly populated district, by the men and women
who attended this first Sunday-school in Hyde Park.

On the 16th day of March, 1862, the Sunday-school was reg-
ularly organized and Mr. James P. Root was elected the su-
perintendent.

Through the earlier years of the history of the school some
splendid organizations flourished. The Busy Gleaners were a
band of girls from the Sunday-school class of Mrs. Farrington.
They devoted the results of their handiwork to the Found-
lings' Home in Chicago and to the education of heathen girls.
The Reapers were a company of older girls which did fine
work through the years 1873-1880. The Nimble Needles was.
another girls' society founded by Mrs. Mary A. Freeman.
The Yoke Fellows was started in 1874 by Major J. H. Cole,
while he was superintendent of the Sunday-school, and this
organization is recalled even today by the men of the church
with words of commendation.

The devotion of the superintendents and teachers in these
pioneer days, when there was little to encourage, was truly
remarkable. The training of boys who later entered the min-
istry, of girls who grew into womanhood and went as mission-
aries to the foreign field, is evidence of the fact that the spirit-
ual life of the school was surely made prominent. An entire
book, interesting in all its details, might be written relating
incidents in the life of boys and girls grown to manhood and
womanhood ; of one superintendent, Major Cole, who became
an evangelist, others who became judges, and men prominent
in business life and in the life of the community and of this
great city ; of the life of Mrs. Sarah Wirt Peoples, who went
out from this school to the Laos country ; of the stereopticon
slides on the life of Christ furnished by the Sunday-school
to Dr. and Mrs. Peoples for their work. How the school
claimed for their own the child now grown to young man-

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hood, Ray Peoples, whose picture has hung on the walls of
the Sunday-school room for years. And then w^e could write
of the one who left our school more recently for India. Airs.
Elizabeth Cole Fleming-, the daughter of our beloved Elder
John A. Cole, who grew up in this school, was active in its
work, and in the work of the young- people.

While impossible to mention all who have been prominent
in the life of the school, coming down to more recent years,
there is one who should receive more than passing comment,
one who devoted years of her life with unselfish fidelitv to
the cause in the Primary department, Mrs. F. F. Bosworth.
With hardly a vacation through 18 years of service among
the younger children has she labored unceasingly and only
will eternity reveal the results of her tireless efforts. Nothing
but ill-health could have induced her to give up the work she
loved so dearly. During her term of office as superintendent
of the Primary Department, the Busy Bees Mission Band did
effective and valiant service in raising funds for mission work
at home and abroad.

Two or three years ago the Beginners' Department, com-
posed of children aged 3 to 6, which had been meeting at
9:30 a. m., was changed to meet at 1(>:3(>, thus permitting- par-
ents to bring the little ones and leave them in charge of a
trained kindergartner while they attended morning worship.

During 1907 it was decided to build an extension to the
Bible School and make additional accommodations for the
growing Bible classes. Accordingly committees were ap-
pointed and after most careful consideration and much pains-
taking effort a two-story building was decided upon and erect-
ed upon the rear of the manse lot, opening into the Bible
School room on the main floor and into the gallery. This
addition contains four commodious rooms, one used for the
free kindergarten during the week, another suitable for a
kitchen, and all available and used on the Sabbath, one by the
Young Ladies' Bible Class, another by the Preparatory Bible
Class, one by the Reed Bible Class, and the fourth by Mr.
McCulloh's Class. This extension or addition was erected at
a cost of approximately $1,500, all subscribed and paid for by
the church people in most generous fashion.

The work of some of these Bible classes is told briefly in
this volume under the caption "Young People's Evening" and
elsewhere. The Preparatory Bible Class was organized in
1905 from among the members of one of the older boys'
classes. Mr. M. C. Robbins, one of the assistant superintend-
ents, resigned to take charge of this new class and its success

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was assured. From a small liei^innin^ it has s^rown steadily
until it has a membership of approximately (in youiis^- men be-
tween the ages 16 to 21.

The school has done much at the Christmas season in its
annual gifts of canned goods, fruits and clothing and at times
this Christmas offering has amounted in value to ^^OO, all
contributed voluntarily by the various classes, lliese gifts
are distributed the following' day, it may be to the hospitals,
the settlements, wnth toys from the Primary Department to
some free kindergarten, and sometimes Christmas Turkey din-
ners to needy families in the neighborhood. One of the
Qiristmas events made possible for a time and greatly en-
joyed by the older people was the Sacred Christmas Cantata
given by the P)ible School on Christmas Sunday evenings.
For three years the chorus was ably directed by Mrs. C. C.
Robbins and judging from the standpoint of attendance when
the church was crowded to the doors, the services were highly
appreciated.

The annual picnics in later years held in the neighboring
parks have been well attended, the younger scholars being
particularly pleased with the ride in the Tallyho coaches to
and from the parks.

The benevolent offerings of the school have been always
generous, the custom being for a number of years to devote
the entire offerings to the boards of the church, Simday-school
associations and charitable organizations. The expense for
administration has been paid in part by the trustees of the
church, and in special offerings, and later from the Benevolent
Budget of the church.

The school colors. Blue and \\niite, were decided upon by
vote of the scholars prior to one Rally Day service.

The school emblem was designed by

^^^^^^^^ Robert \\\ Lazear, a member of the

^^^^^P^^^ school. It was one of sixty submit-

#^^C^|^J^^^\ ted to a committee, who selected it with-

I^HI^N^^l out anv knowledge of the person offer-

^^■fl H ^^r# As a reminder of self-sacrihcing de-

^^^^M^^^r votion and of our responsibilitv for the

^^^■^^^^ work in foreign lands. Superintendent S.

F. Beatty conceived the idea of having

enlarged the photographs of all our representatives in mission

lands. These were framed and now hang on the wall over the

platform in full view of the school. Here their faces con-

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tinne to inspire us week after week and keep us alive to our
opportunities for Christian service.

If there is any class of workers in a church that heed the
injunction "Be not weary in well doing-," it is the devoted, tire-
less Sabbath School teacher, and in this Hyde Park Presby-
terian school we see it exemplified in the life of not a few of
the most faithful teachers any school was ever honored with.
Many of those whose term of service has been long, would be
recorded here were we writing a complete history of the
school. We must be content to mention but one or two — one,
a faithful superintendent who served more years than any
other in like capacity and who graduated with his ^^^ D. (well
done) and entered into the higher position of "Teacher," Mr.
Thos. G. McCulloh. His is one of the splendid classes of girls.
Another who grew up in the school and continues to labor
unceasingly is Miss Elizabeth Stewart. What greater work
can one engage in than to instruct boys and girls in God's
W^ord and lead them to a definite decision for Jesus Christ.

Of the 19 superintendents who have presided over the
school during" the past 50 years, seven have gone to their re-
ward. S. Curtiss Bogue, Homer N. Hibbard, Charles A. Nor-
ton, George M. Bogue. Samuel P. Farrington, Joseph N. Bar-
ker, and Charles PI. Arms. Five have removed from Hyde
Park and five are still in active association with the church as
members of the Session, while the present superintendent is
the assistant minister. Rev. Howard D. French, who grew into
manhood a member of the school and entered the ministry.

What a liistory might be written could we trace the life of
each past member of the school.

We may never know how the influence of this school is
being felt in the life of this great city, of the nation, and the
world, nor can we begin to estimate the good accomplished
by those who have gone out from among us. but we do know
that God uses every life surrendered to His will.

The present enrollment of the school, including all depart-
ments, is 750.

The officers for the present year are Rev. Howard D. French,
superintendent ; C. E. Flanders, assistant superintendent ; ]\Irs.
Donald Mcintosh, secretary; Frank F. Bosworth, treasurer;
Miss Alice Montague, superintendent Primary Department ;
Miss Jessie Irvin Taylor, superintendent Beginners' Depart-
ment ; Charles Esson, librarian.

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Fred H. Kent

3S82-18S3
Chas. H. Arms

1886-1891
Arthur H. Rugj

1897-1898

SUPERINTENDENTS

Henry S. Osborne

1883-1884.
Harvey C. Olin

1896-1897
Samuel F. Beaity

J908-191fl

Henry V. Freeman

1884-1885
Thos. G. MeCulloh

1892-1895 1898-190^
Geo. C. Lazear

1904-1908

Sunday, May Eighth

MEMORIAL. WINDOW

The second Sunday of the Golden Jubilee was the fitting climax
of a week full of pleasure and inspiration. At the morning service
the pastor, Rev. Joseph A. Vance, D. ' D., preached a notable
"outlook sermon," which turned our thoughts from the history of
achievements to the greater achievements that are possible in the
future.

The Church for the Future

"Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdoui." — Luke 12 :32.

During the past week we have been busy with memory. Old
faces and old scenes have risen before us in this half century's
story of struggle and triumph, and are enshrined in our hearts.
They labored abundantly for God ; they laid down their own
lives for the kingdom ; they labored for posterity. We have en-
tered into their labors ; the roof which they built is our shelter,
and their friendship with God is passed on to us, the very water-
mark of our piety. The story of this half century of church life
is an unbroken record of the goodness of God ; the expectations
which His people have had of Him have never exceeded His gifts.
These have brought us to this epoch of the years in our church
life with one of the best equipped church plants in our city, and
one of the strongest church organizations ; and, better still, with
a great faith in God, a firm grasp, I trust, on the essentials of
evangelical Christianity, a noble conception of religion, and a
mighty spiritual momentum.

Today we turn our faces to the unborn future. What it shall
be, lies with us. If we attempt great things for God and expect
great things from Him, we shall make a future worthy of the
past.

My theme this morning is "The Church for the Future."

THE CHURCH AND THE KINGDOM.

The word "church" was not often on the lips of Jesus. His
great word for organized Christianity was the "Kingdom of
God," or of "Heaven," which He uses no less than one hundred
and twelve times in His brief recorded utterances ; but when
we come to the writings of the Apostles we find their great word
for organized Christianity was the "church," the word which Je-
sus used so seldom ; and this occurs in the Acts and the Epistles
exactly the same number of times that Jesus used the expression
■"Kingdom of God," or of "Heaven."

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What is the significance of this change? Is it true, as has
been charged, that the Apostles have lost their Lord's vision?
Has the ecclesiastic again gotten the ascendency? Is the Chris-
tian religion to differ only in name from the failures that have
gone before? Are the followers of Christ to degenerate into an
ecclesiastical organization, instead of becoming a divine incarna-
tion? No, I think not. The apostles have not lost their Lord's
vision, but are simply busied with the means bv which to real-
ize it.

Suppose that years ago, in colonial times, some great prophet
had arisen in our land who looked down the vista of the years,
and saw the great liberty-loving nation that was to grow up in
this western land ; and suppose he had called about him a little
group of noble men and revealed to them the vision and sent
them forth to realize it ; would not the words most frequently
found on the lips of these men differ somewhat from those in
which the seer declared his vision? Such a thing actually hap-
pened in reference to Jesus and His disciples. For what the army
and the navy and all the administrative forces of organized gov-
ernment are in the onward march of a world-conquering empire,
the church is in realizing Christ's vision of the Kingdom of
Heaven.

The dream of our race, it is universally acknowledged, will
be realized when Christ's vision of the Kingdom comes true, and
the church of Jesus Christ is His only ordained and appointed
means by which to bring this Kingdom into existence.

What kind of a church is needed in our day to accomplish
this end?

THE TASKS OF THE GENERATIONS.

The task of each generation differs from that of its prede-
cessor. The early church brought a message for the individual
and an escape for him from the filth and cruelty of a sensual
world. The church fathers found cut out for them a task of
intellectual conquest, in repudiating the pagan philosophies and
saving Christianity from becoming a mere amalgamation of their
most attractive but false characteristics. The church of Huss
and Luther and Calvin and Knox faced the task of sweeping
aside the corrupt hierarchical system which had intruded itself
between God and the believer, and establishing the universal
priesthood of believers and a justification before God based solely
on the atoning sacrifice of Christ. Whitfield and Wesley saved
the church from the icy hand of Deism with the sense of God's
personal presence, and Moody with his message of God's love
for all men led the church out of sectarian strife over non-essen-

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James M. Gilchrist

George M. Bogue

John Cameron

TRUSTEES

E. G. Shumway

Charles Hitchcock

Colin Roliinson

James Wadsworth
C. B. Bouton
Paul Cornell

tials into a brotherhood of behevers where denominational hnes
grow dim, and the preacher seeks once more with Paul "to know
nothing- among- men save Jesus Christ and Hin-i crucified."

The cliurch needed by our age wih be discovered by a study
of our age's striking characteristics. These are three in number.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR AGE.

First, it is a materiahstic age. Success in Hfe to-day is meas-
ured bv material standards. The men most highly honored are
those who have been most successful in accumulating worldly
possessions, and most men boldly and blatantly assert that a man's
program of life should be mapped out according to this standard.
The most noted men of our nation are not the men of biggest
brain and heart power, but the men who can clip the largest
coupons.

A wealthy man in Chicago said, a short time ago, to his son,
who desired to pursue a literary life: "I do not want you to
fool away your life writing books. I want you for a bigger
career than that. I want you to be my partner in this great
business which I have built up."

The object of life with all men who measure success by this
standard must be the mere accumulation of money, and indul-
gence in the unparalleled material comforts which money today
can purchase.

The second characteristic of our age is the scientific. A vast
advance has been made by our generation and its predecessor in
the discovery of the laws of nature, the development of nature's
resources, and their utilization for material ends. The scientific
idea is enthroned in the intellectual world to-day. Science is
practically the God before which we bow down. Our genera-
tion is looking to it to blaze the pathway to an ideal social order
and usher in the Kingdom of Heaven. Our great engineering
and scientific schools, on which have been lavished hundreds of
thousands of dollars, are thronged by tliousands of students, while
the schools of literature, philosophy, and language are meagerly
attended, and even the studv of art is largely commercialized.

In the third place it is an age of criticism, and this criticism
is largely of a destructive character. An unprecedented attack
has been made all along the line on all sorts of philosophical sys-
tems and credal statements, and the very foundations of re-
ligious belief have been attacked. We have not only attacked
the authorship of Shakespeare's tragedies, but in the same spirit
our age has attacked the divine origin of the sacred Scrij^tures.
The result is a loss of belief on the part of many, and a chaotic
condition of belief for the large majority. Criticism has un-

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doubtedly been of gjeat value in cutting out a great tumorous
growth which had fastened on the body of reUgious behef. but
the rehgious world of today has had much of its vitality sapped
by the surgical operation.

If these are the striking characteristics of our times, four
marks should characterize the church that will minister effectively
to this age.

THE CHURCH WITH A VISION.

First, it must be a church with a vision, and that vision the
vision of Christ. The vision of the church must measure up to
its mission. "Go ye therefore and make disciples of all na-
tions" is the church's divinely appointed mission, and the vision
must be world-encompassing also. Men are most prone to self-
ishness, and when selfishness defines the horizon of our vision,
we grow narrow and little and mediocre and mean. Achievement
never surpasses ideal, and the task achieved is never larger than
the vision perceived. These two determine and realize each other.
It has been truly said that a vision without a task makes a man
visionary, and a task without a vision makes a man a drudge.
The church of Jesus Christ must be neither. It must stand with
Christ on the Galilean Mount and get the world perspective.
It must look down through the warring years to the time when
nations shall war no more, and the kingdoms of this world be-
come the kingdom of our Lord. God's church must catch a
glimpse of that great day when the Lord's house shall be estab-
lished in the top of the mountain, and all nations shall flow unto
it, and the kings of the earth shall bring the glory and honor of
the nations into it. The church for the future must have a
world program, and a passion for the conversion of all men.

THE CHURCH WITH A MESSAGE.

In the second place, it must be a church with a message.
An age of doubt may be a beneficial experience for a church to
pass through, but it is a blighting condition if the individual or
church shall abide in it. An age of doubt is never an age of
action. The man who doubts things is never the man who does
things. God's way of saving men is by enlightening them. Life
responds to light. The truth makes free. The preacher is a
herald. The Holy Spirit, whose re-birth alone brings men into
the Kingdom of God, begets men by the Word of God's truth to
be His creatures. The message which God has honored to save
men in the past must be the conquering church's method for the
future. What is that message? I think it must be the same old
evangel that brought salvation to past generations.

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Charles A. Wilson

Frank H. Armstrong

William C. Ott

TRUSTEES
Henry W. Hoyt
William H. Ray

John B. Lord

George T. Williamson

Edwin F. Bayley

M. R. Doty

THE FAILURE OF THE LIBERAL.

The religious liberal has had a great inning in our age, but
his message is impotent when it comes to saving men from sin.
Test the matter by any age in the world's history. Go into the
churches of our own city where the pulpit has been preaching a
gospel emptied of the cross and robbed of the resurrection. What
have they to show in men redeemed from sin and filled with the
life of God? Already their pews are being emptied and their erst-
while tone of contempt for an evangelical message and laudation
of the divinity of the unregenerated man is giving way to pessi-
mistic wails about the failure of the church to save the world.

In everv age when God has used the church to do great things
for the world, it has been a church declaring an evangelical mes-
sage. It must be on the lips of the church that would do God's
work for the future. We must declare Christ's message of the
one Holy God and His great love for all men. We must preach
the Divine Christ, and no mere man, however perfect. We must
lead men to the foot of the cross and point lost sinners to the
crucified Christ and tell them of the precious blood without the
shedding of which there was no remission of sin for men in days
gone by and none for us today. W^e must travel to the empty
tomb, and tell with glad joy the message of Easter morning.
We must join the thronging thousands on Pentecost and be bap-
tized as with cloven tongues of fire. We must face, with a gaze
as calm and steady as an eagle's at the sun, the abiding verities
of the future life, where we reap throughout eternity what we
have sown in time.

The church's message is God's love message of life. Its
preacher must still go forth with Paul, saying, 'T determined not
to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him cru-
cified."

Let the scientist discover his facts, the world needs them. Let
the philosopher work out his system. Let the socialist tell his
dream. The message of the church must be more than a dream,
more than a philosophy, more than a discovery of the laws of
nature and the development of her resources. The Church's mes-
sage is the message of God's love and the gift of God's life, and it
speaks in words like these :

"Now, then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled
unto God, for He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no
sin ; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.''

A CHURCH THAT MINISTERS TO ITS AGE.

The third thing has to do with the church's ministry ; and

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by its ministry 1 mean, not the men who are ordained to preach
its message, but the actual service which it is to render to its gen-
eration. The church's message has been given to it by its Lord,
and it can no more change it than a king's herald can change the
king's message ; but its ministry must be determined by the needs
of its generation.

There is a time for the church to study theology and formu-
late creeds. There is a time for it to build cathedrals, and em-
broider ecclesiastical vestments, and write great oratorios. But
there may also come times to turn its cathedrals into hospitals
and soup kitchens, and use its hymnals for gun wadding and its
vestments for bandages.

If we have rightly interpreted the characteristics of our age
as material, scientific, and critical, the ministry which we should
give is already pointed out. The church must emphasize the
spiritual over the material. It must emphasize religion as some-
thing which cannot be produced by science. It must emphasize
the necessity of faith, in the world's hour of doubt.

Materialistic conceptions of life lead to the neglect and loss
of the spiritual, and cause men to disregard each other's rights
in their eagerness to accumulate wealth and material power. It
is the mission of the church to emphasize the soul element, the
spiritual life and its possibility, and the infinitely greater worth
of a man over property.

A great field of sociology is thus opened up, and three things
stand out strikingly in the program of the church for the future.

EQUALIZE life's BURDENS.

First, it must help to equalize the burdens of life. It must
preach again the old prophet's words that what the Lord God
requires of us is to do justly, and love mercy; and after we have
done both, to walk humbly with our God. The burden of poverty
and the luxury of wealth are two great extremes of life which
must be reduced ; and as never before the church's ministry must
lead the brother who has this world's goods to open his "bowels
of compassion" to the brother that has need. A vast distance
stretches today between the woman who makes shirts for fifty
cents a dozen, and the man who wears shirts that cost one hun-
dred dollars a dozen. The church must lay it on the conscience
of men to wear shirts that cost less and pay more to the woman
that makes shirts.

MODERN PHILANTHROPY.

In the second place, its ministry must work out in the light
of scientific progress the present day problems of benevolence and
philanthropy. It must house people in the fear of God and for the

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welfare of the tenant, as well as for the pay-roll of the landlord.
It must care for the aged, and pension, or employ, at a living
wage, the old men. It must deal with disease and crime in an intel-
ligent and adequate way ; and it must make use of all ])rogress in
scientific investigation and business administration, in dealing
with our present day social problems.

HOW TO MAKE AND SPEND MONEY.

In the third place, it must work out and establish the true
Christian ethics about how to make and spend money.

Money should be made in the light of the truth that man is
of more value than property, as well as in obedience to the com-
mandment "Thou shalt not steal." It must sound the knell of
the manufacturer who will not install life-protecting devices be-
cause of their cost, as well as the promoter of watered stocks and
worthless bonds. It must make men feel the infinite value of man
over property, that the poorest wretch that walks our streets,
who can be knocked down by a street car tomorrow, carried to a
pauper's bed, and from there to a pauper's grave, with none to
shed a tear or give a sigh, is of infinitely greater value than all
the wealth of Chicago.

The church for the future will teach men how to spend money
as well as how to make it. It will lay upon their conscience
Christ's great commission of world-wide evangelization, enforcing
it with God's present day approval of the consecration of money
to this end in the success of modern missions, as well as stir
their generosity and humanitarianism with the parable of the
Good Samaritan and the apostolic injunction about seeing a
brother in need and shutting up our compassion against him.

The people of our day are quick to respond to a physical need,
but slow to hear the cry of soul-hunger from the benighted mil-
lions who do not know the love of God in Christ. Such calami-
ties as the San Francisco earthquake or the sufferings at Messina
bring lavish response, but the spiritual wretchedness of the mil-
lions in non-Christian lands who are going down to a hopeless
death because they have never heard of Christ and his cross
moves most of us to give but a pittance, if at all. The church
of the future, with its great world-vision of Christ's conquest of
the nations, will bring men to see that the greatest task that can
command man's energies and wealth is that of giving a knowledge
of Jesus Christ to every man and woman on earth in this gen-
eration.

A CHURCH WITH CHRISt's SPIRIT.

In the fourth place, the church for the future is the church
dominated with the Spirit of Christ ; and this I think is its most

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important characteristic. "If any man have not the spirit of
Christ, he is none of His."

The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of power. "Ye shall re-
ceive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you.'' A
church can have influence through its wealth, its social position,
the prominence of its members in state affairs and commerce.
But it is not influence that disciples the world for Christ. It is
not influence that saves men from theft and impurity and murder.
It is power, the power of Christ's Eternal Spirit.

The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of loving self-sacrifice. Love
and self-sacrifice must ever go together. "God so loved the
w^orld'' that He let His Son go to Calvary for its redemption,
and the same passion must beat in the hearts of God's people
before they will lay themselves and their money and their chil-
dren on the altar for the salvation of the lost world. The
church's mission will never be realized by a people who spend
more of their time and money on the luxuries of life than they
do to carry the Gospel to the lost world. "Except a corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone."

THE church's great PERIL.

Probablv the church's greatest peril today is a worldly spirit,
allowing the world to set its standard of values, to dictate its
methods, to dominate with its commercial spirit. The business
side of a large city church today is so extensive, its machinery
so complicated and imposing, its organizations so varied, that it
is very hard to keep the business side of it in the background.
We are tempted to measure the prosperity of a pastorate by the
church's financial income and the attendance on the stated serv-
ices, and to run the whole church as a business enterprise, though
the crowd may be drawn by the antics of a mountebank in the
pulpit and grand opera in the choir. Wherever this is done a
selfish spirit creeps in, and the congregation consider and meet
their own needs before even planning to meet the needs of others.
We grow anxious about using our church for too many popular
meetings for fear we may soil the carpet. We get to thinking
much of money and little of the souls of men and the moral and
spiritual conquest of our generation.

It was a church of this kind which disbanded a flourishing
"Boys' Brigade" because they scratched the varnished floors and
injured the furniture. Another church dominated with this world-
ly spirit unconsciously betrayed itself by posting a placard in
front reading "Five dollars reward paid for any boy found break-
ing into this church." Another church dominated by this spirit
made the pastor stop holding open-air meetings on its spacious

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TRUSTEES

L. F. Castle

G. P. Barton

W. C. Foresman

J. C. Craft

F. W. Rockwell

F. M. Atwood

.7. M. Marsliall

J. R. Smith

F. P. Sawyer

lawn under the great old oak trees, because the laboring men
were injuring the grass. But the selfish spirit never helps hu-
manity.

One of the greatest creators of art in the world's history was
Michael Angelo. Possibly many of us have grown up thinking
of him as a man clothed in soft raiment, with tender hands and
well groomed head ; as a man who lived a soft and self-indulgent
life, brought up in the lap of luxury and spending his days re-
ceiving the praises of the multitude. To any who have thought
of him thus, it is a revelation to look upon that bust of him in
Florence, and study that face, marked with the lines of hard
work and seamed with care. It is the face of a man who has
toiled with infinite patience, whose life has gone in hard work,
whose labors have been herculean as well as artistic. All he gave
to the world of art cost him infinite toil and self-sacrifice.

One evening a man drifted into a great city church. It was
a magnificent old stone structure, situated in the heart of a great
city's throbbing life. It bore on its face the marks of rough treat-
ment. Its doorways were worn with the tramp of the thousands
of worshippers who had frequented there, and its walls and pews
were dingy with hard usage. Its entire interior and plan of deco-
ration seemed made to stand hard wear, and hide the finger marks
of the populace. All of which was for a time distasteful to him.
But as he sat there and watched tired people come in this week
night and wearily drop into the pews after their toilsome day,
and, as the service went on, saw them lift their faces with the
light of expectant joy upon them to the man who led and fed
them with the message of God's truth, it came over him that these
marks of hard wear were Christ's badge of glory on the old
church for the great service which it was rendering to the pass-
ing generations.

The law of Christ is on His church as well as on each of His
followers. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die,
it abideth alone." "He that saveth his life shall lose it, but he
that will lose his life for My sake and the Gospel's shall find it."
For even the Son of Man came, "not to be ministered unto, but
to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many."

THE APPEAL FOR A NEW CHURCHMAN.

The appeal of all this is primarily to the church member. If
we have rightly interpreted what the church means in the plan
of God for the world's redemption, and if the church must have
these characteristics to minister to the needs of our generation,
what a call it sounds to us who are in the church to make it what
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average of its church membership. If there is no passion for the
race and for God in the hearts of the church members ; if their
money goes more for display and self-indulgence than to carry
the gospel to those who do not know Christ, to educate the ig-
norant, to lift up those who are down, to win men everywhere to
reverence truth, to do justly, to love mercy, and walk humbly
with God ; then her other performances, however spiritual may
be their name, will be in the sight of God but sounding brass and
clanging cymbal.

I believe the church today as never before is striving to meas-
ure up to its opportunities. Not that the worldly spirit does not
sometimes dominate a large portion of its membership and in-
fluence too largel}' many of its policies ; but, despite the abuse
heaped upon the church, the half-heartedness of many of its mem-
bers in the world's redemption, wherever you find a healthy, lusty
movement for the world's betterment, physical, mental, or spirit-
ual, there you will find ranks of workers largely composed of
those who are not only professing church members, but who draw
from its services and organization, and, above all, from Christ, its
great Head, the inspiration for what they are doing.

Some time ago one of my personal friends, an Episcopal
rector in Chicago, in order to secure material for a public ad-
dress, made an investigation of the difterent settlement workers in
Chicago as to their church membership, and he was surprised to
discover that nearly all of the workers in every settlement were
members of some Christian church. Hull House had more work-
ers than any other who were non-church members, but there were
only six of this type there.

THE CALL TO THE UNCHURCHED.

But this theme sounds a call no less insistent to thousands
who are not church members and yet claim to have an honest
and worthy desire to better the condition of the human race.
There is no place where a man can make his life count for so much
today in the uplift of his fellow men as b}' enlisting in the ranks
of the church and giving himself, with holy devotion to Christ
and the uplift of humanity, to make the church what it ought to
be and accomplish in it what it ought to do. Other organizations
are ephemeral. They come and go with the passing generations.
The work of the church is permanent. Voluntary organizations
may do a spectacular work for a time, but the past is strewn with
the ruins of the best of them. The church alone has the divine
mission. Christ founded it, Christ is in it ; and to it alone has
He given Himself as a sufficient Savior who can redeem this lost
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the race, as well as that redemption of the individual, which
brings in. in its fulness, the Kingdom of Heaven. We may the-
orize and dream and sanitate and philosophize ; we may reduce
mortality and lengthen the span of human life a little. Yet, with
all that we can do, the deep heart hurt of the world goes un-
healed, for the generation or for the individual, until it is touched
by the pierced and yet healing hand of the Great Physician.

THE infidel's TRIBUTE.

Some time ago a mission was being held in Leeds, England,
and one night when the evangelist rested, the Rev. Samuel Chad-
wick, well known in Leeds, took the service. There were in the
meeting a number of the most notorious infidel Socialists, Athe-
ists, and iVgnostics in the city, whose attention and enmity the
missioner had somehow attracted to himself. Mr. Chadwick
was known to some of them, and when he ascended the pulpit they
sent a note up, requesting him, instead of preaching a sermon, to
give them his reasons for believing in Jesus Christ. "As simply
and plainly as I could," says Mr. Chadwick, "I stated the reason
of my belief ; then I added, T know what some of you are think-
ing. If discussions w^ere allowed, what a, chance you would have
of picking me to pieces. Well, if you will come with me into the
room behind the chapel, I will allow you to cross-examine me as
much as you like.' Some twelve of them accepted the invitation,
and we stayed there till two o'clock in the morning. As they
were leaving I said to their leader: 'You have asked me a great
many questions. Will you allow me to ask you one? You pro-
pound a philosophy for a cult. You presuppose a certain stand-
ard of humanity. There are thousands of men in this city who
have lost their manhood. What do you propose to do with them ?'
He hesitated for a moment, then, with a cynical smile, he said,
'Oh, ril make you a present of that lot.' 'But why me?' I asked.
'Because,' he replied, 'I'm free to confess that if there is any
hope for such people, it is to be found in the Christ you preach.' "

There is no hope for any of us elsewhere. Years ago the
little giant of Tarsus found that out, and with only two passions,
one for men and one for the Christ who died to redeem him, he
went forth, "determined not to know anything among men save
Jesus Christ and Him crucified."

There is no other way to save the world, and there is no bet-
ter use to make of one's life than to use it revealing this Way
unto others.

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BIBLE SCHOOL ROOM

On Sunday afternoon, at 3:30 p. ni., there was heUl a "Fellow-
ship Meeting," at which representatives of Chicago Presbytery pre-
sented their congratulations, and spoke words of blessing and of
cheer.

Rev. Jas. G. K. McClure, D. D., President McConnick The-
ological Seminary: It is a great delight to participate with you in
all the joys of these anniversary days. Simply to be here and to
breathe the atmosphere and to Hsten to such words as these just
pronounced to us is a rare privilege and a great inspiration. I
think of this occasion under the heads of gratitude for the past,
appreciation for the present, and hope for the future.

My first acquaintance with this church was in 1871. I had
come into this western country from the east for a summer vaca-
tion, and I was brought by friends into this immediate vicinity,
and was told of the origin and purpose and development of this
church.

My next acquaintance with the church was in 1877. Again I
was in Chicago in attendance upon a General Assembly, and in
order that I might be in constant heed of the meetings of the As-
sembly I hid the fact of my coming from my friends, and I put
myself in the care of the Committee of the Assembly for hos-
pitality. The pastor of your church was the chairman of the
committee on hospitality. I then had my first meeting with you.

"When I came as pastor in 1881, the first ministerial brother
to call upon me in Lake Forest was E. C. Ray. The friendship
that then begun has continued ever since. He was, while in
connection with this Presbytery, my joy and despair. I never
met him on Monday morning that he did not assure me that
he had found the latest and best and surest method of develop-
ing a church life, and he was so positive that his method would
prevail and conquer that in my uncertainty with reference to
my own methods I went home with heaviness of heart. It was
a relief, when I met him a month or two later, to find some
other method was at the front to supplant the one that pre-
viously had been sure of success. Dr. Ray was one of the most
beautiful nien I have ever known. As the difficulties of his

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life have increased through physical disability, and he has borne
many a sorrow and many a burden, I never have known one
syllable of murmuring to escape his lips ; but with supreme
confidence in God he trusts himself and his family to the Lord's
protection, and he stands before me now as the example of
the beauty and strength of Christian grace.

"Of course I have been aware of the varied experiences
through which this church has gone since 1881, and I am
supremely grateful that this church, when the times of its own
distress have come, and great wisdom, and great patience, and
great self control, and great love were required, met the emer-
gency, and came out of the experience of trial into the experi-
ence of victory and success, and I praise you for what you
have been earning and attaining in these past years.

"Now a single word concerning my appreciation of the
present. There is a touching story in the 'Bonnie Briar Bush'
of Flora Campbell. Her home was a severe one to her, and
she left it and wandered into the loneliness of the great city.
Her father followed her with his love and missed her greatly,
but he found it exceedingly difficult to break down his reserve
and summon her to his love again ; but a message reached her,
and in due time she returned to the old home, where the light
was burning in the window for her and where she received her
welcome. In a description of the welcome she uses this ex-
pression, 'there are fifty words in the Gaelic that mean dar-
ling, and my father used every one of them for me that night.'
If I should speak what is in my heart now for you, I would
used word after word significant of the same thought, that I
believe in this congregation, and I honor you for what you are
today. You have splendid men in your membership, splendid
women too, and the work that you are doing, not only here,,
but in other parts of this great community, like Association
House, is splendid. Your works praise you, and they signify
how earnest your spirit and how wide your devotion, and they
signify too how much enthusiasm you have for every feature
of Christ's kingdom that needs help. Your men go out from
this congregation into the great city, and they stand there as
the embodiment of all that is honest and upright, and they go
into the educational institutions and they bespeak through
themselves attention, not alone to the intellectual expression
that they make, but to the spiritual faith which is back of all
their expressions and is their inspiration and their joy.

"Now a word for the future. What is it to be? It would
have been a great delight if I could have heard your pastor's

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Adelbert E. Coleman

James A. Ostrom.

TRUSTEES

John F. Gilchrist

William F. Cameron

Edward P. Skene

H. E. R. Wood

Robert Stuart

George M. Bard

sermon this morning. We are all thoughtful for the future.
Perhaps I may say that this last week I came upon a little
reference to W. E. Gladstone and his attendance upon church.
It seems that he coined the words, 'oner,' 'twoer,' 'thricer,'
and he was so glad to go to church that he did not like to be a
'oner' on a Sunday, but he always was a 'twoer,' and then
he had his greatest joy in being a 'thricer;' and it may be that
your pastor will be glad to have me say that in the church of
the future he hopes as many of you as possible will be 'thricers'
on the Sunday.

"I have two things to say. First, the time is never to come
when the ideals of the Word as voiced by your pastor will not
be the ideals needed by the human heart of mankind. It does
not matter what the underlying force or the material posses-
sion, it does not matter what development of our civilization
may be, the human heart always remains the same, and the
ideals presented to us in Jesus Christ are the only ideals that
are sufficient to lift the human life to its best, and to raise the
human life in true peace and true joy. That these ideals may
be presented here with absolute clearness, and with such force
of love and afifection of expression that every time a soul comes
within the range of this church audience that soul shall have
as it were a vision of a nobler and better self, and shall go
out from its doorways with strength and purpose to live up to
the noblest and highest, is my prayer for you.

"What about yourself ? One thing I would like to see in
the church of the future is the church that knows how to
stand in its lot, possessing not only social and material com-
forts, but always using them as a Master uses his servants
to the good of the spirituality of the individual and to the good
of the helpfulness of the world. Here you have so very much
denied to many others. Oh may God grant that in all your .
beautiful missions, and in all your strong business enterprises,
and in all your associations, there shall be the possibility of
greater hopefulness for Jesus Christ, so that the boys and the
girls growing up here and coming on in the next generation
shall ever be stronger than their fathers, and here there shall
be for all time the embodiment of the power of the Most
High."

Rev. Edward H. Curtis, D. D., Woodlawn Park Presbyterian
Church : "Various reasons constrain me to a glad acceptance of
the invitation to be here this afternoon. In the first place, we
have been doing some celebrating down in Woodlawn. January
19 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of our

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church there. Your own Dr. Ray preached the sermon and pro-
nounced the church duly constituted according to the teachings-
of the Presbyterian church on that January night twenty-five years
ago, and we celebrated it gladly and joyously. Therefore, we
have gotten somewhat into the spirit of Jubilee, and that made
it quite a congenial atmosphere to breathe, to come here where
you are being congratulated upon reaching your fiftieth anniver-
sary.

"The first thing I want to say is this: I come to bring to you
our acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude we owe you as the
mother church. In preparing for the anniversary we have just
celebrated, I had occasion to study the history of things in this
section of the city, and I was pleased especially to read the twenty-
fifth anniversary sermon of your pastor, Dr. Johnson, and in
that sermon I gleaned some facts that were of interest to me,
and led me to feel that we owed much to the labors of those
early members, John A. Cole, H. V. Freeman, C. L. Norton, and
C. L. Boyd. Those were the men who willingly labored in the
early days down in Woodlawn and laid the foundation of things.
You may not know that a mission school was conducted there
for nearly twenty years before the church was organized. The
school had a varying life, sometimes doing finely, and some-
times suffering from removals and other discouragements, but
after all those weary years of work, in which your own members
had so large a share, the church was duly organized January 19,
1885, and I come to acknowledge what we owe to you for your
kindness and your generous interest in us in those early days. It
must have been a weary journey across the sloughs and rough
ground that then intervened between here and Woodlawn.

In the second place, I want to acknowledge our debt of honor
to you. You have set us a splendid example. We are proud of
you as the mother church. This church from the beginning has
been noted for its large activity, for its generous benevolences,
and the daughter church to the south of you has inherited some
of this spirit from the mother. We have been blessed in the
Woodlawn Church. From the very beginning that little band has
been a self-supporting church ; even though they started out with
a little company of thirty-nine, they would not receive a penny
from the Mission Board of Churches. Fleavy were the burdens,
but they were bravely borne by those who formed the nucleus
of that enterprise. Indeed, so independent was the Woodlawn
Church that they paid back the $1,000 to the Church Erection
Board, which was contributed by that Board for the Chapel which
was built before the church was organized.

There are other reasons that give me special interest in this.

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occasion. 1 acknowledge that Dr. Frothingha'.n is my senior in
3^ears, but I want to claim that I am a patriarch in the Presbytery
of Chicago. I first came into the Presbytery thirty-seven years
ago, when I became the pastor of a little church in Waukegan.
The old veterans are all gone, so far as I remember them, the
men who were the leaders in Presbyterianism here in the early
days of Chicago. I was here and a member of the Presbytery
at the time of the famous trial of Professor Swing.

Then I want to say this regarding the old recollections of
Presbyterianism, that my memory goes back nearly sixty years.
On August 24, 1850, my father came to this city to be pastor of
the old mother church, the First Presbyterian Church. There was
no railroad coming into Chicago then from the east, and I must
confess that I was with my father at that time, and we came by
boat from Michigan City. That will show you the primitive con-
dition of things at that time.

The old mother church was situated at Washington and Clark
streets, southwest corner. I remember the buildings that stretched
along the street : the First Methodist Church on the southeast
corner ; the First Baptist Church, southeast corner LaSalle and
Washington streets ; the large mottled stone building of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Washington Street
and Wabash Avenue ; and a little frame building, the Trinity Epis-
copal Church, at Madison Street near Clark. I remember these
in my early boyhood days. To show how little they expected the
city to extend south, my father bought a lot on the northeast
corner of Wabash Avenue and Van Buren Street, and the people
complained bitterly that he had gone so far away from them, and
my father then made the^orediction : 'Tn a short time you will
be coming down this way," and sure enough, in 185G they laid the
foundation of a splendid stone church, which cost over $100,000,
and was swept away by the fire of 1871. My father's prediction
came true, and the population began to surge toward the south.

I remember the time when this whole Hyde Park region was
the hunting ground of the boys, and on Saturday many a time
have I tramped along the lake shore and through the woods, and
there were one thousand more pigeons than human beings. It
was a fine hunting ground, and we could bathe without restric-
tions in the lake. The only buildings between here and Chicago
were Merrick's tavern and Cleaverville, where the soap factory
stood. That was the Chicago of my boyhood days, and all the
region south of Twelfth Street was open prairie on which cows
were pastured. Now see what it has become ! This great city
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of the city has come the growth of the church. In those days
there were the First and Second Church, and the Third Church
on the west side, and the Fourth Church on the north side, and a
little branch of the Second Church called Olivet Chapel near
Twelfth Street. That shows Presbyterianism in the fifties. Now
we are a great family, and this church, organized fifty years ago,
has become one of the strongest of this great metropolis today,
and we, as loyal Presbyterians of Woodlawn, rejoice in your pros-
perity, rejoice in all the honor that has come to you, and rejoice
most of all in the splendid service you have been able to render
for Christ in the Kingdom ; and I trust that the prediction of
your pastor in his sermon this morning for the outline of the
future will be more than realized, that this church with its splen-
did vantage ground, with its splendid equipment, will do yeoman
service in the coming years for Christ and the Church and
Humanity.

May God bless you, and may the blessing that comes to the
mother church come to the daughter at the south. God is over
us, and though we do not come up to you in point of numbers, or
in point of financial strength, or in point of material or spiritual
influence, we follow after, and we are glad that we can be called
a child of the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church,

Rev. James Frothingham, D. D., Stated Clerk, Chicago Pres-
bytery: I am glad to be with you upon this interesting celebra-
tion, to stand upon the platform with these distinguished mem-
bers of the Presbytery, and to speak a few words as its represen-
tative. The Stated Clerk is privileged by official endowment, were
he possessed of no other endowment. Locality and relationship
make me a part of the Hyde Park congregation. I greatly enjoy
the sermons of its pastor. That of this morning in its strength
and beauty was a prophetic vision of the future. I enjoyed it
immensely. Dr. Vance is no juggler of words, no preacher of
deep philosophies that fail to interest, no interpreter of truth on
materialistic or rationalistic or naturalistic grounds. His preach-
ing is true to the truth in God as the needle points to the pole.

From the very first, this has been a remarkable Jubilee. From
that literary gem presented last Sunday morning, that peculiarly
striking review of the church history, keeping the attention of all
through the whole of its delivery, and that remarkable and beau-
tifully unique presentation of the church's history last Friday
night, through all the incidentals connected with this week, every-
thing has been successfully carried out to the delight of the large
audiences attending. As I listened to Dr. Anderson at the Men's
Banquet, and heard the words of Mr. Bogue, who was introduced

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by Judge Freeman as being in the autumn of his years, I thought
of these men as well described in the words Longfellow speaks
of Irving's declining years:

"Here in the Indian summer of his days he came,
But the dry leaves of life were all aflame
With tints that brightened and were multiplied."

So may God's grace rest upon the head of each one of those
who in the old years constituted the membership, and now link a
blessed past to a more blessed future.

We had in Chicago a World's Congress of Religions under
the lamented Dr. Barrows, which had other ends in view and yet
ran parallel with the World's Fair. Here and now, parallel to
these services, has been one of the grandest gatherings the church
has ever witnessed in the cause of Christ in its mission to distant
lands. May this church receive a benediction from this World's
Missionary Congress, and may these services be an inspiration
which shall mark the future of all its movements as long as it
shall exist a church.

When Summerfield, the revivalist of years ago, was once
asked where he was born, he replied : ''I was born in Bristol and
I was born in London." "How can that be?" said a fellow
preacher. And he replied : "Art thou a master in Israel and
knowest not these things." Why may not a church be twice
born? This church, from a scant score, reaches out now
to nearly a thousand. Why can it not be born again to a higher
and nobler destiny, to grander achievements, to greater develop-
ments that lay before it?

These meetings have come and gone. You have enjoyed the
privileges, you have listened with delight, you have feasted your
memory on the things that will not die, the things of beauty that
live forever. And you are to have a book published that will
contain many of the proceedings. Is that all?

A year ago I attended the fiftieth anniversary of St. Anne's,
a French church. It had come out of the Roman Catholic Church
under the leadership of Father Chiniquy. When they had com-
completed the round of exercises in French and English, they
determined, as the result of that celebration, the semicentennial
anniversary, the Sabbatical work of the Sabbatical year, that they
would build a parsonage on the vacant lot, caused by the burning
of Father Chiniquy's residence many years ago, and they materi-
alized their joy in that parsonage. What will this church do?
You need no manse, you have one. Is there nothing this church
can do as a spiritual output to make permanent the memory of

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this grand occasion ? This church can Hve on, it will live on,
as being the church of Hyde Park village that came into the city
with its own corporate rights, which protect the church and are
by the church protected. It is in a residence district, and there
will be no change in its social aspects for many years to come,
for it is buttressed by the great University which will command
the conditions that shall prevail throughout these regions.

The life of a church goes on as a river. It starts from a
spring, its fountain head ; it is refreshed by rivulets from other
springs ; it grows into a broad river which bears commerce upon
its bosom ; or it may disappear in the ground and come up again
in some oasis that shall gladden the heart of a traveler ; or it may
become that hidden river of God that bursts out in the artesian
flow. Though lost to sight, it still lives on ; and so this church,
which has already renewed its life in Woodlawn Park and South
Park, will live on to reappear in refreshing forms through future
years.

And I close by saying that the true church life, the memorial
that you may leave, the institutions you may found, that which
shall mark the memorv of this grand gathering, shall be the
personal life of every individual member in this church. Tenny-
son in his "In Memoriam" says :

"I held it truth, with him who sings,

To one clear harp in divers tones.

That men may rise on stepping stones
Of their dead selves to higher things."

By such stepping stones of daily sacrifice you may rise to
higher things. In this shall the permanent history be written
and the record immutable of all coming years. Thus shall live
on the beauty and the power of this wonderful celebration.

The Psalm that was read to you said: "Instead of the fath-
ers shall be the children." Last Friday night, when I looked
on the vision of the past, those faces in glory now, and I know
how you hold them in reverent regard, I thought how you were
taking their places in the church of God, and how you are com-
memorating their lives, and are commemorating the glory of that
Redeemer who gave you such parentage and established this
church with such beauty and power. It is our present-day poet.
Van Dyke, who says :

Four things a man must learn to do,
If he would make his record true;

To think without confusion clearly ;

To love his fellow men sincerely ;

To act from honest motives purely ;

To trust in God and Heaven securely."

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And God and Heaven will watch over you and give you the
securitv that conies from the All Father and good hope through
grace in Jesus Christ.

Rev. Edgar P. Hill, D. D.. Supt. Church Extension Com-
mittee, Presbytery of Chicago: I find myself entering into the
spirit of this celebration with peculiar heartiness. I am having
a little celebration of my own today. Twenty-two years ago this
very day. Mav 8, I was ordained to the ministry in this city of
Chicago, and installed pastor in what was then known as the Re-
union Presbyterian Church. Dr. Herrick Johnson, Dr. Withrow,
and Dr. McPherson were the men who took part in that service,
and so I find myself instinctively appropriating the lesson and
jubilation of the day to myself.

We are looking back over fifty years in the history of this
church. I find myself asking these questions : What has it all
amounted to? Of what value has the work of this church been
to this community ? Fifty years of prayer meetings and of
preaching services and of singing and praying. What has it all
amounted to so far as the uplifting of the community is con-
cerned? We are all aware that the value of the church is some-
times doubted, even the friends of the church sometimes ques-
tion the usefulness of the various services in which we engage.
Why go to prayer meeting week after week? Of what value is it
to us to attend services Sabbath after Sabbath, join in the sing-
ing and listen to the sermons and then go home ? Suppose today
we could tell of orphanages and schools of various kinds, settle-
ments organized and maintained by this church, how much more
thrilling the review would be ! It strikes me if we are going to
get any adequate idea of the value of the church to a community,
we must have in mind clearly the real mission of the church.
We cannot understand such an organization as the church unless
we have in mind the purpose for which it was organized, the ob-
ject it is to accomplish.

A few weeks ago I was in Grand Rapids and was much inter-
ested in the street cars there. They have mail boxes on the front
and rear. I had never seen such a thing before, and I asked a
man what it meant. I asked : "Are these real mail boxes ?" I
asked him of course a very foolish question: "What are they
there for?" "Why, to put the letters in," he repHed. "How do you
work them?'' I asked. "Why, just stop the car," he said, "at any
street and drop in your letter, and when the car reaches the post-
office a man comes out and takes the mail." I studied that combi-
nation for some time and I found myself asking this question :
suppose a person were to get it into his head that it was a mail
car with a passenger attachment, how he would misunderstand

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the street car system of the city. It is a passenger car witli mail
box attachment. Now what is the church? Is the church a
benevolent movement with a gospel attachment, or is it a great
gospel movement with a benevolent attachment? We all believe
in the magnificent ministries of Christendom, and some think it
is the great mission of the church to organize schools and estab-
lish hospitals, and they feel confident the church is failing in its
mission unless these tangible things are evident. So it has come
to pass that these intelligent people are pointing the finger of
scorn at the church, and say it is not accomplishing anything,
it is not a factor in the uplifting of the community because it does
not organize these various tangible ministries and place over them
some ownership or lordship of the church. I sometimes feel that
the more loyal the church is to its supreme mission the more it
is misunderstood by the world at large. It is just as it was in the
old days when Jesus ministered to the multitude. When he fed
the people bread, the multitude shouted his praises : "Let's make
him king!" But the very next day, when he talked to thern
about the bread that cometh down from heaven and reminded
them of God and of their souls' needs, they said with a smile,
as they turned away : "What do we care for this bread ? What
do we care for our souls?" And Jesus turned to his little band
and said : "Will ye also go away?" My point is that in the review
of your fifty years the richest ministries of this church cannot be
tabulated. You can tell by the figures how many have been re-
ceived into the church, how many sermons have been preached
and funerals conducted, how much money has been raised for
various organizations, but the choicest ministry of this church
cannot be tabulated in any such way.

I got a hint of that in a letter yesterday. About a year ago
a husband and wife attended a church in one of our suburbs and
listened to a sermon by a visiting clergyman. He took for hi'^
text: "Those that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength."
He drew special attention to the words "wait for Jehovah." It
made a deep impression on this couple, and I doubt not they
talked it over again and again. Last Tuesday, like a bolt from
the clear sky, the death messenger appeared in that home, and on
Thursday we stood by the fresh-made grave of the beloved hus-
band. What was it that stricken wife needed? Did she need the
ministry of a settlement or an arbitration board or hospital ? No.
she needed the ministry that the multitude need in the crises of
their lives, and which they can never have unless they receive it
from the church of Jesus Christ. She needed the consolation and
inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and in her letter she
said she was clinging to that promise that was brought to her a

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year ago by that visiting clergyman, "they that wait for Jehovah
shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as
eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and
not faint."

If we could only get an idea of these untabulated ministries
of this church during the past fifty years, how our hearts would
thrill, and how quickly we would say, "surely this is the Lord's
work, it is very marvelous in our hearts."

Today we come to congratulate you on the splendid past, and
we pray God that during all the days ahead the Lord's blessing
may be multiplied to pastor and people.

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Manual of the

First Presbyterian Church

of Hyde Park

January First

1873

This Church took its form and title on the 29th day of April, A. D.
1860.

In answer to a petition, signed by residents of Hyde Park and
Woodlawn, and presented to the Presbyterian Committee on Home
Missions of Chicago Presbytery, the Rev. Z. M. Humphrey. D. D., the
Rev. Robert W. Patterson, D. D., and the Rev. William H. Spencer
were appointed a committee to organize the Church, should the way be
clear. On the day above named, this committee met with the petitioners
in the Hyde Park Chapel. A sermon was preached by Dr. Humphrey,
after which ten persons presented letters from other churches, and two
made public profession of their faith in Christ. At an adjourned meet-
ing, held May 6th, and moderated by the Rev. Wm. H. Spencer, four
others were added to the membership ; two ruling Elders, Hassan A.
Hopkins and Geo. W. Bowman, were ordained and installed ; and thus
the Church was fully constituted. At this meeting sixteen persons sat
down together for the first time as members of the same Church to cele-
brate the Lord's Supper.

For two years the Church remained without regular preaching.
Ministers from the city of Chicago served the congregation as circum-
stances permitted. The Rev. Mr. Spencer, then pastor of Westminster
Church, greatly encouraged the young enterprise by his frequent and
acceptable offices. Rev. J. S. Edwards, who resided at the time in Hyde
Park, preached for some months, and performed pastoral duties when
required. The Rev. Dr. Burroughs, President of Chicago University,
also lent his personal assistance, and often sent theological students to
conduct religious services.

In the month of March, A. D. 1862, the Rev. C. F. Beach was ni-
vited to labor for one year as stated supply. Immediately, on his com-
ing, a society organization was formed by the election of a Board of
Trustees. To this society was deeded lot No. 4 and one-half of No. 3,
in Block 19, together with the Chapel standing thereon, by Paul Cor-
nell, Esq. This Chapel was erected in 1858, by Mr. Cornell, chiefly at
his own expense, as a place of worship for all Christians, and had been
so used up to this time. It now became the property of the First Pres-
byterian Church and Society of Hyde Park.

On the 16th day of March, 1862, the Sunday School was organized.
Hamilton B. Bogue, who had been previously elected, was ordained and
installed as a ruling elder May 25th, 1862. The Rev. Mr. Beach re-
mained as stated supply until March, 1864, when he resigned and the

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Church was left without a minister for a year and a half. Services were
held, however, quite uniformly on Sabbath mornings, and prayer meet-
ings were sustained on Sabbath and Wednesday evenings of each week.
The first pastor of the Church was the Rev. Bradford Y. Averell,
called July 1st, A. D. 1865, and ordained and installed in the following
autumn. During his brief, but devoted labors, the chapel was enlarged
one-third its original size, and the Church grew in spiritual life and
efficiency. The eldership was again enlarged by the election of Charles
A. Norton, who was ordained and installed, March 4th. 1866.

After ten months' service, Mr. Averell's health becoming impaired,
he was granted an indefinite respite, in the hope that he might soon re-
cover his strength and return to his charge. This hope was not to be
realized. After a lingering illness, it pleased God to transfer him to
the higher employments of Heaven, July I'^th, A. D. 1867.

In September, 1867, the Rev. David S. Johnson was called to the
pastorate, and was installed on the 7th day of October following. The
relationship then constituted still exists.

Claudius B. Nelson, formerly an elder in the First Presbyterian
Church, Chicago, was installed in the office of ruling elder, Nov. 3d, 1867.
During the summer of 1868, it was deemed advisable, in view of
the demands of a growing congregation, to make arrangements for a
new house of worship. Eligible lots were soon secured, situated on the
northeast corner Oak Street and (now) Washington Avenue ; a sub-
scription was set on foot ; plans were adopted ; a building committee ap-
pointed; and in May, 1869, the good work was auspiciously begun. On
the 30th day of October, A. D. 1870, the completed edifice was dedicated
to the worship of the Triune God.

Elder Charles A. Norton having died in February, 1872, the session
was again increased by the addition of Erastus S. Williams, Joseph N.
Barker, and Homer N. Hibbard, of whom the two former were installed,
and the latter ordained and installed July, 1872.

The growth of the Church from its origin until the present time,
Jan. 1st, 1873, is as follows:

Pastor
Rev. David S. Johnson.
Elders Truste?:s

Hassan A. Hopkins. Homer N. Hibbard, Chairman.

Claudius B. Nelson. George M. Bogue, Secretary.

Joseph N. Barker. James Wadsworth, Treasurer.

Erastus S. Williams. Paul Cornell.

Homer N. Hibbard. Claudius B. Nelson.

Hamilton B. Bogue, Clerk. Charles Hitchcock.

By Certificate. By Confession. Total.

Original Number 13 .3 16

Received in 1862 4 1 5

1863 10 1

■ " 1864 3 0 3

1865 7 0 7

1866 4 4 8

1867 10 1 11

1868 11 2 13

1869 10 13 23

1870 10 4 14

1871 12 11 23

1872 14 11 25

Total 99 50 149

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(Note. — Since the eompilation of this iiiamial the following: have been
received) :

Received in

1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1905.
1906.
1907.
1908.
1909.
1910.

ificate

. By Confession.

Total

26;

103

108

107

102

105

111

101

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MEMBERS.

The first 16 are charter members.

Paul Cornell April 29, 1860

James Wadsworth

Mrs. Emily W. Wadswortli

G. W. Bowman

Mrs. Almira A. Bowman

Mrs. L. B. Jameson

Henry C. Work

Mrs. Sarah P. Work

Hassan A. Hopkins

Mrs. Sarah M. Hopkins

Mrs. Helen G. Cornell

Hugh B. Hart

Mrs. Adeline R. Danley : May 6, 1860

Mrs. Sally N. Bogue

Hamilton B. Bogue

George M. Bogue

Ann S. Downs May 3, 1862

Harriet A. Beach

Simon K. Danley

Homer N. Hibbard Oct. 4, 1862

Jane N. Hibbard

Eliza Remmer June 6, 1863

199

Lucy T. Morgan March 4. 1864

Charles A. Norton

Mrs. Nema Hopkins

Daniel H. Home Nov. 1, 1865

Mrs. Anna B. Home

Nettie R. Home

Llbbie Florence Home

James P. Root Nov. 5, 1865

Mrs. Anna Root

Mrs. Mary Petrie

Ellen J. Noble Jan. 3, 1866

Harriet A. Lockwood March 3, 1866

Louisa D. Whittlesey May 6, 1866

John V. Jones Jan. 27, 1867

Mrs. Mary E. L. Jones

Benjamin F. Merrill

Mrs. Julia McClure

Mrs. Anna Hitchcock

Mrs. Annie Griswold April 6, 1867

Franklin A. Whitney "

William H. Hoyt

Mrs. Mary B. Hoyt "

E^eanora Hoyt

Claudius B. Nelson Nov. 3, 1867

Mrs. Mary R. Nelson "

Jennie Hendrie "

Peyan N. Trobeck

Mrs. Lucy M. VanDoren "

Mrs. Mar.v H. Lodge

Charles G. Loeber Jan. 31, 1868

E. G. Vincent "

Mrs. Catherine M. Vincent "

Sarah A. Vincent

Olivia Vincent "

Mrs. Emily A. Bogue Aug., 1868

M^. S. Johnson, M. D

James Johnson Oct. 30, 1868

Mrs. Sophia Johnson

Mrs. Helen L. Johnson

Silas R. Ball Feb. 3, 1869

Mrs. Jane S. Ball

Mrs. H. A. Parsons

Francis A. Mclntyre

Mrs. Hariiet E. Mclntyre

Elizabeth F. Goodwin '

Ann Elizabeth Downs

Josephine M. Mulligan

Carrie Home

Anna D. Hopkins

Catherine M. Van Doren

Edward E. Seitaert

Edward Butzbach

Isaac W. Nichols

Mrs. Adeline R. Judd April 30, 1869

Minnie Judd

Samuel P. Farrington July 29, 1869

Mrs. Harriet F. Farrington

Joseph C. Young

Mrs. Mary E. Young

Robert Carmichael

Mrs. Mary Carmichael

Mrs. Amanda Moody

Frederick Glover

J. Ramsay Flood Nov. 5, 1869

Mrs. Sally D. Flood

Alice Merrill Feb. 4, 1870

A. A. Smales

S. Usmar Downs

Mrs. Aurelia Dodge April 28, 1870

200

ivirs. Clara D. Cornell April 2S, 1870

Mrs. Emily E. Garnsey "

Francis \^'. Parsons Nov. 4, 1870

Mrs. Louisa A. Parsons "

Barton A. Ulrich "

Mrs. Helen R. Ulrich "

David D. Cornell

Ella S. Cornell

Ella Martin "

Mary A. '^''allace "

Mrs. Elizabeth S. HiRgins Dec. 12, 1870

Mrs. Mary Fitch Feb. 4, 1871

Elizabeth Fitch

John Mather "

Mrs. Mary A. Mather

Mrs. Maggie Goode "

Richard F. Kay

Henry W. Brookes "

Mrs. Jeannette Brookes "

James H. Cole May 5 1871

Mrs. Helen L. Cole "

Mrs. Anna M. Davol July 31, 1871

William H. Parke

Henry Gilbert "

Mrs. Louisa Gilbert "

John .'^. Fitch Aug. 4, 1871

Mrs. Mary E. Fitch

Elias Bogue "

Mrs. Laura R. Swett

Mrs. Cornelia E. Sluyter "

Mrs. Mary A. Ashford "

Mrs. Marcie E. Bruce Nov. 3, 1871

Charlotte E. Bruce

Joseph N. Barker Feb. 2, 1872

Mrs. Frances M. Barkei- "

Erastus S. 'V^'^illiams "

Mrs. Sophia H. Williains "

Mary S. Williams "

Grace A. Williams "

Samuel H. Downs "

Florence L. Farrington "

Elizabeth A. Williams "

Elizabeth Riley

Margaret Hill

Joseph B. Ashford "

Mrs. Emma M. Johnson May 3, 1872

Charles B. W^aite

Mrs. Catherine V. Waite ; "

Lucy Waite "

Elizabeth G. Cornell

Helen Cornell "

John W. Halliday Aug. 2, 1872

Mrs. Isabella S. Halliday

Robert Higgins "

Lela Cole "

George C. Smith Nov. 1, 1872

Mrs. Elizabeth V. Smith

Charles M. Smith

Mrs. Sarah E. Smith

George Willard

Christopher Metz Dec. 20, 1872

Mrs. Sarah E. Metz "

Matthew Mitchell Jan. 28, 1873

Mrs. Hannah Mitchell

Laurence Garrett

Calvin Gifford Jan. 31, 1873

Mrs. Mary A. Gifford

Florence I. Gifford "

Magnus H. Andersen "

John W. Evans March 18, 1873

201

Mary Remmer April S, 187S

Josephine Barker

Mary Barker

Abner T. Hinckley

Mrs. Annie A. Hinckley

John S. Van Derslice April 29. 1873

Mrs. Lnella J. Van Derslice

Henry V. Freeman

Ada I. Sluyter

Ann B. Fitch

Lucia M. Fitch

Edwards W. Porter

202

Pastors, Officers, and Communicants

May First

1910

SEATING PLAN
1910

204

Church Organization

Rev. Joseph A. Vance, Minister.
Rev. Howard D. French, Assistant Minister.

Elders — Term Expires

.Arthur H. Rugg 1912

Franlt F. Bosworth 1912

Chas. F. Loweth 1912

A. Stuart Baldwin 1912

P. F. Beatty 1912

Henry V. Freeman 1914

Henry H. Belfield 1914

.John M. Coulter 1914

Walter C. Nelson 1914

George C. Lazear 1914

John A. Cole 1916

Thos. G. McCulloh 1916

S. S. Dorwart 1916

Adelbert E. Coleman 1916

Chas. W. Bird 1916

Clerk of Session —
Arthur H. Rugg 1514 E. 54th St.

Clerk of Congregation —

F. R. Angell 1300 Madison Park

Deacons — Term Expires

T. M. Bates 1911

Arthur W. Cole 1911

Frederick R. Angell 1911

C. E. Flanders 1911

A. Miller Belfleld 1912

Thos. J. Hair 1912

Ralph H. Rice 1912

Thos. Madill 1912

G. O. Fairweather 1913

Fred H. Tracht 1913

Chas. H. Sagar 1913

Donald Mcintosh 1913

Arthur W^. Cole, President.
Frederick R. Angell, Secretary.
Chas. H. Sagar, Treasurer, 5628

Washington Ave.

Reception Committee —
A. A. Robertson, Chairman
Thos. Madill
S. S. Dorwart
C. H. Sagar
T. G. McCulloh, .Jr.
.John Vanderbergen
F. A. McGibbon
R. S. I^indstrom
Oscar Hayward
S. P. Johnston
H. A. Dow
F. H. Tracht
A. H. Noyes
S. F. Beatty
J. D. Cunningham.

Trustees — Term Expires

H. E. R. Wood 1911

John F. Gilchrist 1911

James A. Ostrom 1911

O. M. Powers 1912

A. E. Coleman 1912

Geo. M. Bard 1912

Edward P. Skene 1913

Robert Stuart 1913

William F. Cameron 1913

A. E. Coleman, President.
H. E. R. Wood. Secretary.
O. M. Powers. Treasurer, 5416 Jef-
ferson Ave.

Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Honorary President — Mrs. Joseph A.

Vance.
President — Mrs. Robert F. Cummings.
1st Vice-President — jNIrs. Ambrose V.

Powell.
2nd Vice-President — Mrs. W. S. Mc-

gee.
3rd Vice-President — Mrs. Mary El-

lickson.
Secretary — Mrs. Howard D. French.
Treasurer — Miss Harriet Gilchrist.

Women's Home Missionary Society

Honorary President — Mrs. Joseph A.
Vance.

President — Mrs. Robert F. Cummings.

1st Vice-President — Mrs. J. F. Gil-
christ.

2nd Vice-President — Miss Ada M.
Belfleld.

3rd Vice-President — Mrs. S. F. Beatty.

Secretary — Mrs. W. S. Kenny.

Treasurer — Miss Margaret G. Grier.

Ladies' Aid Society
President — Miss Caroline F. Smith.
1st Vice-President — Mrs. Charles A.

Reed.
2nd Vice-President — Mrs. Clarence

W. Aird.
3rd Vice-President — Mrs. Mary El-

lickson.
Secretary — Mrs. Charles S. Reed.
Treasurer — Mrs. T. G. McCulloh.

Music Committee —

Chas. W. Bird
James A. Ostrom
Rev. Howard D. French
Mrs. Donald Mcintosh
Mrs. H. H. Sessions

205

THE CHOIR

Mrs. John B. Viets, Organist and Director.
Miss Minnie Bergman, Soprano. Mr. Harry C. Hammond, Tenor.

Mrs. Ethel Fenton, Contralto. Mr. Arthur Dean, Bass.

Sexton —
William Manifold 5311 Lake Ave.

CHURCH CALENDAR

Weekly

Sunday — Public Worship: 10:30 a. m., 7:4.5 p. m.

Bible School at noon.

Beginners' Department, 10:30 a. m.

Junior Society, 3 p. m.

Young People's Prayer Meeting, 5 p. m.
TN'ednesday — Prayer Meeting, 8 p. m.

Semi-Monthly

Tlie Ladies' Aid Society, 11 a. m., first, third and fifth Tuesday of the month.

Monthly

The Trustees, first Tuesday, 8 p. m.

Tlie Deacons, first Tuesday, 8 p. m.

The Woman's Home Missionary Society, second Tuesday.

Tlie Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, second Tuesday.

The Men's Club, third Thursday, 7:45 p. m.

Tlie Missionary Concert of Prayer, last Wednesday, 8 p. ni.

The Session, last Friday. 8 p. m.

Quarterly

The Communion, first SabbatJi in March, June, October and January.

The Preparatory Sei^vice, Wednesday, 8 p. m., previous to the Coinmunion.

Infant Baptism, Sabbath morning succeeding eacli Communion Sabbatli.

Annual

Church Meeting — To elect officers and to transact business, the last W^ednes-
day of March, 7:45 p. m.; to liear reports, the first Wednesday in April.
7:45 p. rn.; congregation to elect trustees and tiansact business, first
Wednesday in April at the close of the church meeting.

The Bible School, the Sal^bath after the election of the Superintendent.

COMPLETE ROLL OF PASTORS. ELDERS, DEACONS, TRUSTEES AND
TERMS OF SERVICE

Pastors

Fiom To

Charles F. Beach, S. S March, 1862 March, 1864

Bradford Y. Averell Oct., 1865 July, 1867

David S. .Johnson Oct., 1867 Oct., 1880

Edward C. Ray June, 1881 Nov., 1887

W. W. Totheroh Oct., 1888 Nov., 1893

Hubert C. Herring : Sept., 1894 Aug., 1898

Joseph A. Vance Dec. 1899

Elders

Hassan A. Hopkins May, 1860 .Jan., 1890

George W. Bowman May, 1860 May, 1861

Hamilton B. Bogue May, 1860 Dec, 1868

Charles A. Norton March, 1866 Feb., 1872

Claudius B. Nelson Nov.. 1867 Aug., 1880

Erastus S. Williams June, 1872 Oct., 1878

Joseph N. Barker June. 1872 May, 1902

Homer N. Hibbard June, 1872 Nov., 1897

Samuel West Dec, 1878 Jan., 1886

George Stewart Dec, 1878 July, 1888

John C. Welling Feb., . 1881 Nov., 1906

William A. Olmsted Jan., 1882 March, 1898

John A. Cole Jan., 1882

Charles H. Arms Jan., 1886 March, 1898

Henry V. Freeman Dec, 1888

Thos. G. McCulloh April, 1892

Harvey C. Olin Apiil. 1892 Jan., 1897

David J. Lindsay April, 1896 Julv, 1903

Arthur H. Rugg April, 1896

Welland F. Sargent April, 1896 June, 1897

Henry H. Belfleld April, 1898

John M. Coulter April, 1898

206

Elders — Continued

From

Hlisha C. Ware April,

Ralph F. Bogle July.

Welland F. Sargent April.

Walter C. Nelson April,

Edward E. Hill April,'

Frank F. Bosworth April',

George C. Lazear April,

Edward H. Bingham April,

Adelbert E. Coleman April,

Chas. W. Bird April,

Chas. F. Lioweth April,

A. Stuart Baldwin April,

Samuel F. Beatty April,

Samuel S. Dorwart April,

Deacons

Christopher Metz Dec,

Henry V. Freeman Dec,

Abner T. Hinckley Dec,

William A. Olmsted Dec,

Henry S. Osborne Dec,

Charles L. Boyd Dec,

Charles H. Arms .Tan.,

Elisha C. Ware Ian. ,

David J. Dindsay Dec,

Anson S. Hopkins Dec,

.Arthur W. Cole Dec,

Charles L. Boyd April,

Thomas G. McCulloh April,

Edwin D. Wheelock April,

Welland F. Sargent April.

Arthur H. Rugg April.

Edward E. Hill April,

A. L. Smith April,

Arthur V. Lee April,

Frank F. Bosworth April,

C. E. Ware April,

James R. Smith April,

J. C. Craft April,

Emil O. Rudert April,

Charles W. Bird April,

John C. Riheldaff er April,

Edward H. Bingham April,

F. R. Angell April,

T. M. Bates April,

Charles C. Robbins April,

Samuel F. Beatty April,

Frederick A. Brown April,

A. Miller Belfield April,

D. Q. Irwin April,

Arthur W. Cole April,

Chas. H. Sagar April,

Merton C. Robbins April,

Donald Mcintosh April, 1907

Thos. J. Hair April,

Ralph H. Rice April,

George Fairweather April,

Clarence E. Flanders April,

Thomas Madill April,

Frederick H. Tracht April,

Trustees

From To

Paul Cornell 1862 188«

James Wadsworth 1862 1883

Chas. Hitchcock 1862 1882

C. B. Nelson 1862 1881

H. N. Hibbard 1862^ 1882

George M. Bogue 1864 1892

Colin Robinson 1876 1889

207

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1898

Aug.,

1909

1899

June.

1900

March,

1910

1901

1903

March,

1910

1904

,Tune,

1905

1904

1906

1907

1910

1874

Dec,

1879

1874

Dec.

1878

March,

1894

1879

Dec.

1881

1880

March,

1890

1880

Dec,

1886

1882

Dec,

1885

1886

Dec.

1887

1886

March,

1896

1886

March,

1892

1886

March,

1892

1887

March,

1894

1890

March,

1892

March,

1897

1892

March,

1897

1892

March,

1896

1894

March,

1903

1894

Dec,

1895

1896

March,

1910

1896

March,

1904

1896

March,

1898

1896

March,

1902

1897

March,

1900

1897

March,

1907

1900

March,

1906

1902

March,

1905

1903

March,

1904

Sept.,

1909

1904

March,

191(1

1904

March,

1909

1904

March,

1910

1905

1906

March,

1909

1907

1909

1910

Trustees — Continued

From To

Henry V. Freeman 1880 1883

J. C. Welling- 1880 1897

C. B. Bouton 1881 1887

E. G. Shumway 1882 1884

John Cameron 1882 1894

James M. Gilchrist 1883 1884

E. F. Bayley 1883 1886

W. C. Ott 1884 1893

C. L. Norton 1884 1889

W. C. Nelson 1886 1901

F. H. Armstrong 1887 1889

C. H. Root 1888 1888

W. H. Ray 1889 1889

Robert Stuart 1889

J. B. Lord 1889 1894

H. H. Belfleld ^ 1889 1898

D. J. Lindsay 1889 1899

H. B. Bogue 1890 1894

C. A. Wilson 1892 1895

M. R. Doty 1893 1896

J. F. Gilchrist 1893

O. M. Powers 1894

H. W. Hoyt 1894 1898

G. T. Williamson 1895 1898

T. G. McCulloh 1896 1899

J. M. Marshall 1898 1901

F. W. Rockwell 1898 1908

W. Coates Foresman 1899 1902

L. F. Castle 1899 1905

J. C. Craft 1899 1908

A. E. Coleman 1901

G. P. Barton 1901 1907

J. R. Smith 1902 1907

F. P. Sawver 1903 1905

F. M. Atwood 1905 1906

G. M. Bard 1905

W. F. Cameron 1906

H. E. R. Wood 1907

E. P. Skene 1907

J. A. Ostrom 1908

BENEVOLENCES

At the beginning- of each ecclesiastical year, April 1, the deacons make up
a budget, which includes all benevolent causes to which the congregation will
make contributions for that year. This amount is raised by individual con-
tributions, for whicli envelopes are furnished on application to the Treasurer,
Mr. Chas. H. Sagar, 5628 Washington Ave. No appeals are made from the
pulpit, and all members of the congregation are requested to contribute by
this method.

This budget for the current year is as follows;

ANNUAL BUDGET

Home Missions

Per cent of
Amount expected division of

to be raised amount raised

Church Extension $1,200 12. %

Association House 750 7.5

Freedmen 200 2.

Ministerial Relief 200 2.

Education of Ministers 150 1.5

Aid for Colleges 150 1.5

Pastor of University of Illinois 100 1.

Sunday School Work of Assembly 150 1.5

Chicago Tract Society 100 1.

208

Foreign Missions

Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 1.500

Waldensian Mission 100

Miscellaneous

Presbyterian Hospital 400

Kindergarten of tliis Cliurcli 500

Our Bible School 650

Hyde Park Protective Association 150

Session and Deacon's Fund 600

Assistant to the Pastor 1,800

Church Stenographer 300

Contingent Fund 1,000

Totals $10,000

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Total Membership

B. School Membership
Home Mission.s

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Education

Sabbath School Work

Church Erection

Ministerial Relief

Freedmen

Aid for Colleges

Congregational
Miscellaneous
General As.sembly

Total Contribution

6.5

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10.

100%

209

Communicants

Abbott, Elery J.
Abrams, Edwin E.
Abrams, Linnie B. (Mrs. E. E?.)
Abrams, Louise
Abrams, Louise C.
Adam, Robert S.
Adam, Mary M. (Mrs. R. S.)
Adams, John B.
Adams, Olive Lida
Aird, William Clarence
Aird, Helen M. (Mrs. C. W.)
Akin, Charlotte A.
Akin, Lucy H. -

Aldrich, Mae French (Mrs. W. H.)
Aldrich. Windsor F.
Allen. S. Louise (Mrs. H. C.)
Allen, Franklin Lyman
Allen, Nellie Rockwell (Mrs. F. L.)
Allen, T. Grant
Allen. Nettie M. (Mrs. T. G.)
Allen, Clara Wilson
Allen, Mary Ruth Robertson
Allen, William Grant
Allen, Richard Grant
Allison, Marion Aldrich (Mrs. Na-
thaniel)
Alvord, John W.
Alvord, Helen C. (Mrs. J. W.)
Andrews, Mrs. Helen R.
Andrus, Mrs. Florence B.
Andrus, Charlotte H.
Angell, Frederick R.
Antisdale, Stella Minor (Mrs. E. S.)
Arms, Mrs. Aura C.
Armstrong, Mrs. Rutli
Atwood, Madeline T.
Avery, William Herbert
Avery, Annelyle G. (Mrs. W, H.)
Ayres, Walter S.
Ayres, Effle (Mrs. W. S.)

Bailey, Mary L. (Mrs. Geo. C.)

Bailey, Ferdinand R.

Baird, George A.

Baird, Ella Rachel (Mrs. Geo. A.)

Baker, Estelle E.

Baldwin, A. Stuart

Baldwin, Mattie Frazier (Mrs. A. S.)

Baldwin, William Frazier

Bali. Clare Shane (Mrs. S. Y.)

Bard, Geo. M.

Bard, Helen M. (Mrs. G. M.)

Bard, Norwood

Bard, Edith Decker (Mrs. N.)

Bard, Ralph A.

Bard, Roy Emerson

Barker, Burt B.

Barrett, Margaret F. (Mrs. C. R.)

Barton, Geo. P.

Barton, Emma W. (Mrs. G. P.)

Barton, Thyrza M.

Barton. Amelia Page

Barton, Hubert C.

Bates, Clara B. (Mrs. H. M.)

Bates, Mrs. Ellen W.

Bates, T. M.

Bates, Frances F. (Mrs. T. M.)

Bates, Frank

Bates, Adelmer M.

Bates, Clara Holt (Mrs. A. M.)

Bauer, Bessie Lee

Bear, Robert G.

Bear, Bessie Horn beck (Mrs. R. G.)

Beardsley, Alice

Beatie, Edward L.

Beatie, Emma Rockwell (Mrs. E. L.)

Beatty, Samuel Fulton

Beatty, Elizabeth C. (Mrs. S. F.)

Beaudry, Cora E.

Belfleld, Henry H.

Belfleld, Anna M. (Mrs. H. H.)

Belfleld, Andrew Miller

Belfleld, Ada M.

Belfleld. Margaret Wallace

Bell, Walter E.

Belshe, Edwin Luther

Belshe, Alta Baird (Mrs. E. L.)

Bennett, Mrs. Maria E.

Bent, Muriel

Bent, Dorothy A.

Bingham, Eleanor Elizabeth

Bird, Charles W.

Bird, Ally B. (Mrs. C. W.)

Bird, Ethel

Bisbee, Ernest F.

Bisbee, Mrs. E. F.

Bjornsen, Helen B.

Bjornsen, Lovina Leonora

Black, James

Black, Maude P. (Mrs. J.)

Black, Agnes M. (Mrs. Jno. H.)

Blazer, Ferdinand S.

Blazer, Marguerite S. (Mrs. F. S.)

Blazer. Frederick Louis

Bogue, Hamilton B.

Bogue, Emily A. (Mrs. H. B.)

Bogue, Arthur Hoyt

Boice, William

Bonitz. Annie Williams (Mrs. D. A.)

Bookwalter, Alfred Leroy

Bookwalter, Marie

Boss, Hattie E.

Bosworth, Frank F.

Bosworth, Lizzie (Mis. F. F.)

Boyd, Mag.gie J.

Brandon, George R.

Brandon, Luella J. (Mrs. Geo. R.)

Bray, Gertrude McMillan (Mrs. F. C.)

Breckenridge. Karl S.

Breckenridge, Mrs. K. S.

210

Breckenridge, Mary Lois

Brink, Herbert B.

Bristol, Mrs. Mary J.

Bristol, Mary C.

Bristol, Holton W.

Brittain, Benjamin

Brittain, Margaret F. (Mrs. B.)

Brittain, Sarali Ellen

Brittain, Mary Emma

Brittain, Harold M.

Brittain, George

Brock, Geo. W.

Brock. Elizabeth B. (Mrs. G. W.)

Broadfoot, Sarah N.

Brodhead, Frederick A.

Brodhead, Nellie L. (Mrs. F. A.)

Brooks, John Henry

Brooks, Emlia A. (Mrs. J. H.)

Brown. Anna M. (Mrs. F. G.)

Brown, Catherine Dewey(Mrs. W. C.)

Brown, Frederick A.

Brown, Mary Lois

Bryan, Rachel

Bryan, .Tanet

Bryce, Anna

Burnett, Guy

Burns, Agnes Maxwell

Burns, Thos. A.

Burton, George B.

Burton, Effle J. (Mrs. G. B.)

Burton, .Josephine (Mrs. Wm. M.)

Buser, ]VIrs. Verna Brock

Caldwell. Catherine E. (Mrs. C. E.)

Caldwell, Julia C.

Cameron, Peter F.

Cameron, Mary "V^". (Mrs. P. F. )

Cameron, Mary Adelaide

Cameron. Charles C.

Cameron, Mary Louise (Mrs. C. C.)

Cameron, Charles C, Jr.

Cameron, Mrs. Mary

Cameron, Mai-y A.

Cameron, Gordon

Cameron, 'VVm. F.

Camjibell, Samuel W.

Campbell. Emma L. (Mrs. S. W.)

Campbell, Emma Lee

Capp, Helen Roney (Mrs. F. M.)

Carey, Mrs. Mary Cecilia

Carr, Charles

Can-, Agnes Hodge (Mrs. C.)

Carr, William C.

Carr, George T.

Carmichael, .Jane H.

Carruthers. William H.

Carruthers. M. E. fMrs. W. H.)

Carruthers. Arthur S.

Cass, Stephen G.

Cass, Elizabeth H.

Cass, I.sabella

Chalmers, Gertrude

Chambers, Wm. A.

Chester, Oscar Paul

Clark, Mrs. Angeline R.

Clark, Catherine Fulton

Clark, .James

Clark, Jemima P. (Mrs. J.)

Clark, Sarah B.

Cleaver, Ida (Mrs. C. S.)

Cleaver, Mary

Cleaver, E?lsie

Cole, John A.

Cole, Julia A. (Mrs. J. A.)

Cole, Arthur W.

Cole, Mary W. (Mrs. A. W.)

Cole, Grace May

Coleman, Adelbert E.

Coleman. Ida R. (Mrs. A. E.

Coleman, Ray

Coleman, Shayler

Cornell, Mrs. Ella S.

Cornell, Louis S.

Cory. Elizabeth C. (Mrs. J. D.)

Coulter, John M.

Coulter, Georgiana (Mrs. J. M.)

Coulter, Grace Allen

Coulter. John G.

Craft, J. C.

Craft, Zada D. (Mrs. J. C.)

Craft. Catherine Gai-retson

Craft, Daniel Dustin

Cragin, Herbert Ellsworth

Cragin, Lillian Alderdice (Mrs. H.E.)

Cumming, Chas. G.

Cummings, Mary A. (Mrs. R. F.)

Cummings, Lenore

Cunningham, Robert M.

Cunningham, James D.

Cunningham, Juliet Brooks (Mrs.

J. D.)
Ounningliam, Rebecca
Curtis, Alberta Sophia
Curtis, Mary E. (Mrs. J. S.)
Cutshaw, Mary ETi'win (Mrs. A. L.)

Darlington, Josephine C. (Mrs. H. P.)

Dakers, Martlia Mitchell

Dalton, Schuyler Nathan

Davisson, Walter C.

Davisson. Ressie A. (Mrs. W. C.)

Dean, Arthur R.

Dean, Emma Fuller (Mrs. A. R.)

Decker, Morton

Decker. Anna M. rMrs. Morton)

Decker, Leon

Deudney, Stanley Bliss

De Vore, Kenneth Lei'oy

Dewey, A. A.

Dewey, Helen F. (Mrs. A. A.)

Dewey, Helen Mae

Dewey, Grace K.

Dewey, Allen A.

DeWolf, John H.

DeWolf, Carrie (Mrs. J. H.)

De'W^olf, Clare

Dickinson, J. Louise

Dixon, Mrs. Emma B.

Dixon, Zora I.

Doak. Margaret Mary

Donaldson, Robert P.

Donaldson, Helen Varney(Mrs. R. P.)

Donaldson, Lois HoAvell Varney

Dorwart. Samuel S.

Dorwart, Laura V. (Mrs. S. S.)

Doty, Mrs. Virginia

Dow Harry A.

Dow, Florence Batchelder (Mrs. H. A.)

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Doyle, Horace H.

Doyle, Marion H. (Mrs. H. H.)

Doyle, Lucy M.

Doyle. Horace Frank

Drake, Mrs. Luella Knight

Drake, Holley Jones

Duncan, Elbert O.

Duncan, Lucy H. (Mrs. B. O.)

Duncan, Mary C.

Dunlap, Nettie H. (Mrs. C. C.)

Dunlap, Elizabeth E.

Dunlap, Marion L.

Dusenbury, Caroline

Eckels, George M.

Eigenmann, Lena (Mrs. C.)

Eigenmann, J. Christian

EUickson, Mrs. Mary

Ellis, Florence

Ellis, Dorothy

Elmslie, Jane (Mrs. J.)

Elmslie, Louise C.

Elmslie, George G.

Elmslie, Margaret G.

Elmslie, Minna A.

Emerson, William A.

Emery, Joshua

Emery, Emily S. (Mrs. J.)

Emery, Joshua, Jr.

Ensminger, Blanche L. (Mrs. M. D.)

Epperson, Alice J.

Esson, Charles

Esson, James Edgar

Esson, Charles Risk

Esson, Katherine May

Evans, John W.

Evans, Mary A. W. (Mrs. J. W.)

Evans, Mrs. Anna C.

Evans, Martha Dell

Evans, Esther

Fabius, Paul D.

Fairweather, Geo.

Falkenau, Therese

Ferguson, Alexander

Ferguson, Kate (Mrs. A.)

Ferguson, Anna C.

Ferguson, Helen E.

Ferguson, W. C.

Ferguson, Sai-ah M. (Mrs. W. C.)

Fielder, Frederick A.

Fielder, Josephine W. (Mrs. F. A.)

Fielder, Harold S.

Fielder, William F.

Finney, H. E.

Finney. Sophia M. (Mrs. H. E.)

Firebaugh, Estella R. (Mrs. C.)

Firebaugh, Russell Chester

Flanders, Clarence E.

Flanders, Margaret MacGregor (Mrs.

C. E.)
Fleming, Elizabeth Cole (Mrs. D. J.)
Flint. Mary A.

Foord, Lizzie E. (Mrs. J. L.)
Foord, James S.
Foresman, Robert
Foresman, Edith H. (Mrs. R.)
Foresman, W. Coates
Foresman, Elizabeth P. (Mrs. W. C.)

Foresman, Elizabeth

Foresman, Hugh A.

Foresman, Lila P. (Mrs. H. A.)

Forman, Mrs. H. C.

Foster, Adelaide Hancock (Mrs.

Wilson)
Fountain. Robert S.
Fraker, Mara Wilson (Mrs. B. P.)
Frazee, Delavan D.
Frazee, Mary C. (Mrs. D. D.)
Frazee, Louis Rheem
Freeman, Henry V.
Freeman, Mary A. (Mrs. H. V.)
Freeman, Helen A.
Freeman, Henry B.
Freeman, Wm. S.
Freese, I.ievi J.

French, Helen C. (Mrs. Howard D.)
French, Martha G. (Mrs. B. W.)
French, Harry P.

Frothingham, Chloe H. (Mrs. Jas.)
Frothingham, Frances
Fulks, Mrs. E. B.

Gardner, Mrs. Esther Bogue

Gehlbach. Emma J. (Mrs. G. W.)

Gentles, Henry W.

Gentles, Margaret W. (Mrs. H. W.^

Gilbert, George H.

(Gilbert, Mary Edna (Mrs. G. H.)

Gilchrist, Harriet F.

Gilchrist, James M.

Gilchrist, John F.

Gilchrist. Emma B. (Mrs. J. F.)

Githens, Perlonia J. (Mrs. A. M.)

Given, George Francis

Goodman, Rinda C. (Mrs. L.)

Goodman, Marion

Goodman, Gertrude

Goodman, Mrs. Margaret

(jordon. Robert

Gordon, Jessie C. (Mrs. R.)

Gould, Mrs. Ella &.

Graham, Roy C.

Green, Mrs. Elizabeth

Green, Annie E.

Greene. Alonzo H.

Greene, Mary Beach (Mrs. A. H.)

Greene, Mary Bertha

Grier, Anne E. (Mrs. J. A.)

Grier, Margaret G.

Gungoll. Alma

Hair, James A.

Hair, Amelia R. (Mrs. J. A.)

Hair, Thomas J.

Hair, Florence Cummings(Mrs. T. J.)

Hair, Samuel G.

Handyside, Mrs. Rachel

Hanson. Maysie H. (Mrs. C.)

Haiker, Romura J. (Mrs. F. H.)

Harmon, Margaret (Mrs. 'W. W.)

Harper, Cora Hart (Mrs. A. E.)

Harper. Howard E.

Hart, Florence B.

Harvey. James Alexander

Harwood, Anne Reed (Mrs. Jno. M.>

Haynes, Charles N.

Haynes, Gertrude S. (Mrs. C. N.)

212

Hay^^■a^^l, Arthur W.

Hayward, Elizabeth C. (Mrs. A. W.)

Hayward, Mabel

Hayward, Oscar C.

Hendricks, Luta P. (Mrs. J. P.)

Heiidricl\S, Gertrude W.

Hendricks, Genevieve E.

Hendricks, Marjorie Ethel

Herbst, Marian Hill (Mrs. W. H.)

Herbst, Clay E.

Herbst, Agnes Mary

Hibbard, Jane N. (Mrs. H. N.)

Hill, Edward E.

Hill, Rosa May (Mrs. E. E.)

Hill, Rose Elizabeth

Hill, Ruth Goodman (Mrs. M. A.)

Hinkins, .John E.

Hinkins. :\Iinnie M. (Mrs. J. E.)

Hinkins, Virginia E.

Hinkins, Cora E.

Hodgson, Frank D.

Hodgson, Mrs. Sarah T.

Hoffmeister, Vera

Home, Anna B. (Mrs. D. H.)

Horton, Hazel Heath (Mrs. Geo. T.)

Hosking, Benjamin T.

Hosking, Carrie J. (Mrs. B. T.)

Hosking, Julietta P. (Mrs. Anthony)

Houston, Cora (Mrs. G. T.)

Houston, Geo. Theodore, Jr.

Houston, Philip Douglas

Houston, Horace King

Howard, Roy B.

Howells, Emma

Hul-ne, Mrs. Martha

Hulme, Mary W.

Hults, Robert L.

Hunt, Robert G.

Hunt, Vi^•i;l^ Seals (Mrs. R. G.)

Ingraham, Mrs. Harriet A.
Irwin, Harriet B. (Mrs. D. Q.)
Irwin, Mrs. Lizzie

Jacobs, May H.

Jayne. Edgar L.

Jayne, Emma de F. (Mrs. E. L.)

Jenkins. Guy Springer

Jennings, J. Elliott

Jennings, Mae L. (Mrs. J. E.)

Johnson, William S.

Johnson, Emma M. (Mrs. W. S.)

Johnson, Grace

Johnson, Mae E.

Johnston, Robert S.

Johnston, P'"annie (Mrs. R. S.)

Johnston, Samuel P.

Johnston, Fannie S.

Johnston, Robert

Johnston, Anna M. (Mrs. R. )

Johnston, Clayton R.

Jones, Mrs. Phoebe E.

•Tones, Marc Edmond

Katlierman. Charles A.
Kaufman, Mrs. Marguerite
Kellogg. «»ieretta F. (Mrs. C. V.)
Kent, Grace K. (Mrs. C. E.)

Kern, Thomas Francis

Kinsman, 1-Ielen

Kingore, Fred S.

Kingore, Nettie Coulter

Kinsman, E'lizabeth G.

Kinsley, Mrs. Rebecca L.

Kinsley, William W.

Kinsley, Mabel M. (Mrs. \Vrii W )

Knott, Rebecca J.

Lake, Albert Edward

Lake, Alta Anthony (:Mrs. A. E )

Lake, Arthur C.

Lamme, Charles W.

Lamont. Mrs. Almira J.

Lane, William H.

Larimer, Margaret E.

Lave, Madeline Elizabeth

Law, William John

Law, Joseph

Lawrence, Mrs. A. H.

Lawson, William C.

Lawson, Mary T. (Mrs. W. C. )

Layman, Archibald E.

Lazear, George C.

Lazear, Mary E. (Mrs. Geo. C.)

Lazear, Robert Wells

Lazear, Edward Tuthill

Lazear, Doris

Lee, Arthur V.

Lee. Mary A. (Mrs. A. V.)

Lee, Verna G.

Lee, Arthur Virgil, Jr.

Lee, William M.

Lee, Florence Isabel (Mrs. Wm.)

Lee, Alice F.

Lee, Lydia M.

Leonard, Lucy M.

Leonard, Isabel Jayne (Mrs. E. W )

Leonard, Eva M.

Lewis, Albert B.

Lewis, Charles A.

Lewis, Charles Allen

Lewis, Virginia T.

Lewis, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Wm. E.)

Lewis, John C.

Lewis, Alice E. (Mrs. J. C.)

Lindsay, Robt. C.

Lindsay, Sarah F.

Lindstrom, Robert S.

I.indstrom, Anna O.

Llewellyn, Mary A. (Mrs. Jno. T.)

Lloyd, Mary E. (Mrs. James)

Lloyd, Helen

Lockhart, Eloise

Logan, Howard

Loweth, Chas. F.

Loweth, Carrie T. (Mrs. C. F.)

Loweth, Mary G.

Loweth, Margaret

Loweth, Frederick

Loweth, Robert c.

Lowry, Thos. Kirkpatrick

Lowry, Ethel G.

Luklns, Nina (Mrs. F. W.)

Macdonald, George

Macdonald, Margaret Stuart (Mrs. G'.)

213

MacChesney, Nathan William

MacKenzie, John T.

MacKenzie, Wentworth P.

MacKenzie. Mary Allen (Mrs. W. P.)

MacWhinney, Frances

Madill. Thomas

Madill. Alma E. (Mrs. Thos.)

Manifold. William

Manifold, Marjorie (Mrs. W.)

Manifold, Catherine Keen

Manson, John Christian

Marriott, Bertha S. (Mrs. P.)

Marshall, Charles

Marshall, Mrs. Chas.

Martin, Florence E.

Matthews, Leigh Meryl

Maxham. Mrs. Lucinda

Mayou, Joseph S.

Mayou, Mrs. Eliza F.

McBride, Charles R.

McBride, Jennie E. (Mrs. C. R.)

McBride, Edith

McBride. Clarence A.

McBride, Irene G.

McBride, Edward L.

McClellan, Margaret (Mrs. R. M.)

McCormick, Mrs. Laura

McConnell, John

McConnell, Anne D.

McCoy, Wm. T.

McCoy, Nellie M. (Mrs. Wm. T.)

McCoy, Mrs. Eliza T.

McCoy, Margaret M.

McCulloh, Thos. G.

McCulloh, Maria L. (Mrs. T. G.)

McCulloh, James Woodbury

McCulloh, Charlotte E. (Mrs. J. W.)

McCulloh, Thos. G.. Jr.

McCurdy, Sarah

McDougal, Alfred L.

McDoagal, Emily J. (Mrs. A. L.)

McFarlane, Mrs. Mary

McFarlane. Helen Capp (Mrs. F. L.)

McGee, Walter S.

McGee, Ethelyn C. (Mrs. AV. S.)

McGibbon, Mrs. Harriet IVIcLaury

McGibbon, Forrest A.

McGibbon, J. Annette

McGibbon, Harold R.

McGibbon. Malcolm Austin

McGreevy, Rose

Mcintosh, William

Mcintosh, Donald

Mcintosh, Ada C. (Mrs. Donald)

McKee, George C.

McKinnon, Mrs. Annie

McMillan, Mary Jane (Mrs. D. D.)

McMillan, Elizabeth Johnson

McMillan, Katherine Hibbard (Mrs.

L.)
McMillan, Mrs. Martha N.
McNulta, Laura
McPherson, Walsh B.
McPherson, Sophia Marie (Mrs. W.

B.)
McPherson, Fredericka Emily
McRoy. Geo. G.
McRoy, Ada F. (Mrs. G. G.)
McSurely, William H.

McSurely, :Mary E. (Mrs. W. H.)

Mead, Robert C.

Mead. Minnie C. (Mrs. R. C.)

Mead. Alice

Melvin, Mrs. Isabella

Mentzer, John Preston

Mentzer. Mary A. (^Mrs. J. P.)

Meyer, Mrs. Louise Baker

Mifflin, Chas. H.

Mifflin, Emma J. (Mrs. C. H.)

Millen. Edith Pearl.

Miller, Airs. Rebecca

Miller, :\Irs. Daisy Orr

Miller, William G. 9.

Mills, Marguerite

Milnes, Mrs. Eleanor C.

Milnes, Elsie L.

Mohr. Ida (Mrs. W. J.)

Mohr, Harriet Ida

Moore, Mrs. Jennie Baker

Moore, Mrs. Nettie R.

Moore, John W.

Moore, Robert C.

Moore, Eunice Brown (Mrs. R. C.)

Morgan, Harriet.

Morgan, Katherine

Morgan, Margie C.

Morrill, Cora Dodge (Mrs. Allan A.)

Morrill, Allan Donald

Morris, Ellis

Morrison, Mrs. Alonzo

Morrison, Fannie H. (Mrs. Z. F.)

Morrison, Georgie

Morse, Mamie H. (Mr.s. John F.)

Moss, Mrs. Lydia A.

Mower, Roswell

Mowry. Helen A. (Mrs. Louis C.)

Muldrow, Marietta

Munson, Fred W.

Munson, Eunice H.

Murray, Mrs. Ella W.

Nance, "^"illis D.

Nance, Zelma (Mrs. \\'. O.)

Naylor, Frederick L.

Naylor. Florence Mitchell (Mrs. F.L.)

Neff. Caroline

Nelson, T\^alter C.

Nelson, Fannie B. (Mrs. W. C.)

Neville, C. C.

Nevius, Guernsey V.

Nichols, Katherine A.

Noble, Mary E.

Norton, Olive Louise

Noyes, Albert Hamilton

Noyes, Anna Wills (Mrs. A. H.)

Olin, Nora L.

Oliver, Mrs. Margaret V.

Oliver, Geo. W.

Olmsted, Helen M. H. (Mrs. T\\ A.)

Olmsted, Ruth H.

Olmsted, Mary W. (Mrs. Geo. G.)

Orr, Louis T.

Orr, Mrs. Louis T.

Ott, Nancy (Mrs. T\'. C.)

Ott, Minnie C.

Ott, William H.

Oughton. Mary Dana

214

Oughtoii. Giacia
Ozburn, Alexander M.
Ozburn, Hattie L,. (Mrs. A. ^M.)
Ozburn, Barbara Kckles
Ozburn, Charles

Palmer, Lawrence Clianibers

Parish, Doraltha

Parkins, Earl W.

Parke, John E.

Parker, Minnie E. (Mr.'<. I>. A,)

Parker, Robert W.

Parker, James V., Jr.

Parker, Martha L.

Parker, Louise

Parr. Frances M.

Parr. Alice S.

Parrotte. Walter L.

Parsons, Lucius W.

Parsons. Mary R. (Mrs. L. AV.)

Patterson, Alice Cornell (Mrs. G. W.)

Patterson, John C.

Patterson, Claudia C. (Mrs. J. C.)

Peters. Gertrude E.

Peterson, A. Ferdinand

Petrie. Edward C.

Phelps, Henr.y W.

Pierson, Romaine

Pillow, Anna R. (Mrs. W. H.)

Pollock, Helen W. (Mrs. H. C.)

Pollock, Mrs. Katherine A.

Porter, Ethel Quigg (Mrs. J. L.)

Potter, Mrs. Kate B.

Potter, Louise Caton

Potts, Mrs. Sallie G.

Powell. Hannah Belle Clark (Mrs.

A. V.)
Powers, Orville M.
Powers, Angle E. (Mrs. O. M.)
Powers. Edwin B.
Powers, Eva A.
Powers, Ethel
Pribyl, Hugo V.
Pribyl, Mae E. (Mrs. H. V.)
Primm, Clarence J.
Pringle, Mrs. Elizabeth

Raney, Elizabeth

Ransford, Ida May

Ransford, Lulu Blanche

Ray. Douglas M.

Raymond, Mrs. George

Reed, Lucy A. (Mrs. C. A.)

Reed, Mary

Reed. Charles S.

Reed, Susanne F. (Mrs. C. S.)

Reichmann. Julia

Reierstad, Leopold

Remmer, Mary E.

Rice, Mrs. Clara Kerr

Rice, Ralph H.

Rice, Harriet (Mrs. R. H.)

Rice. Elliott S.

Rice, Anna Johnson (Mrs. E. S.)

Rice, Margaret Josephine

Rice, Gladys Bradfleld

Rich, Charles C.

Richards, Cora St. Pierre

Richards, Edgar Andrew

Richards, John T.

Richards, Lucy K. (Mrs. J. T.>

Richard.s, Keene

Richards, I^ucille

Rickor, William L.

liicker, Bessie Bown (Mrs. W. L.)

Ritchey, John H.

Ritchey. Ella L. (Mrs. J. H.)

Ritche.y, Miriam

Rittenhouse, Fred M.

Rittenhouse, Mary Wood (Mrs. F.M.)

Kobliins, Frances H. (Mrs. W. G.)

Rolibins, Helena

Roberts, John M.

Roberts, Eva (Mrs. J. M.)

Robertson, A. A.

Robertson, David A.

Robertson, Anna Knobel (Mrs. D. A.)

Robinson, Sarah M. (Mrs. D. C.)

Rockwell, Mary R. (Mrs. F. W.)

Rockwell, Archibald G.

Rockwell, Tlieodore G. ..;

Rockwell, John D. ;

Rockwell, Edwin R.

Rockwell, Emory S.

Roney, James T.

Roney, Paul F.

Roney, James D.

Ross, Charles I.

Ross, Daisy B. (Mrs. C. I.)

Rowbotham, Margaret

Rowbotham. Julia E. (Mrs. H. C.)

Rownd, Frank

Rugg, Arthur H.

Rugg, Lucy N.

Rush, G. Fred

Sachteleben, Ruby B. F.

Sugar, Charles H.

Sagar, Charlotte E. (Mrs. Chas. H.)

Sagar, Carlotta D.

Sagar, Frances E.

Sargent, Welland F.

Sargent, Fannie B. (Mrs. W. F.)

Sargent, Marjorie G.

Schmidt, Henry G.

Schmidt, Rosina M. L. (Mrs. H. G.)

Schmidt, Otto G.

Schofleld, Mrs. George

Schofleld, Dorothy Ogden

Scott, Samuel S.

Scott, Anna T. (Mrs. S. S.)

Sessions, Frank M.

Sessions, Anna M. (Mrs. F. M.)

Sessions, Nellie L. (Mrs. Henry)

Seymour, Alice W.

Seymour, Chas. Webster

Seymour, Lemuel C.

Shafer, Glenn A.

Shane, Samuel P.

Shane, Ada (Mrs. S. P.)

Shane, Anna Paisley

Shane, Maurice Vaillant

Shenstone, Mrs. Saxon F.

Sherwin, Eugene

Silvey, Anna N. (Mrs. W. L.)

Silvey, William Robert

Silvey, Ethel

Skene, Edward P.

215

Skene, Anna D. (Mrs. E. P.)

Skene. Margaretta

Skinnei, Mrs. Lydia J.

Skinner. Ida E.

Skinner, Minnie A.

Skinner, Paul P.

Slicliter, Helen Roberts (Mrs. A. P.)

Slyder, Margaret J. (Mrs. Frank J.)

Smith, Charlotte

Smith. Alexander

Smith, Caroline F.

Smith, James R.

Smith, Elizabeth (Mrs. J. R.)

Smith, Paul Hughan

Smith. Mrs. Mary J.

Smith, Mrs. Jennie L.

Smith, Mae Hall (Mrs. H. W.)

Smith, John William

Smith, Jessie Taft (Mrs. J. W.)

Smith, Mrs. Jane McNaught

Sparks, Erma Belle

Spining. Isaac P.

Spining, Mrs. I. P.

Stacks, Mrs. Fannie

Sterling, Jessie Louise

Stewart, Elizabeth S.

Stewart. William Herbert

Stiles, Clara C.

Stone, Cynthia L.

Stroheker, W. S.

Stroheker, Mrs. W. I>.

Strong, Mary Freeman (Mrs. R. M.)

Stuart, Robert

Stuart, Margaret J. (Mrs. R.)

Stuart, R. Austin

Stuart. Mrs. Nena Hayden

Stuart, Katherine Hayden

Stuart, Agnes E.

Sutherland, Douglas

Sutheiland, Hugh Baker

Sutphen, Walter L.

Sutphen. Nellie Holmes (Mrs. C. J.)

Sutton, Edna Godell

Sweney, Mary McFarlane CMrs. C. H.)

Sykes, Mabel

Sykes, Mrs. Sarah J.

Talcott, Katherine Smith (Mrs.

W. H.)
Taylor, Roger Roy.

Taylor, Catherine Potts (Mrs. R. R.)
Tefft, Parker W.
Tefft. Anne J. (Mrs. P. "W.)
Thomas, Rowland
Thomas, Belle W. (Mrs. R.)
Tolley, Whitfield A.
Tolley, Edna M.
Tolley, Margaret
Tomlinson. Mrs. C. "^'. >
Tracht, Frederick H.
Tracht,- Nora Sloan (Mrs. F. H.)
Travis, Lange B.
Travis, Lillian B. (Mrs. L. B.)
Travis. Susan M. H. (Mrs. J. L.)
Travis. Miles B.
Travis, Mary J. (Mrs. Miles B.)
Travis. Vaun M.
Trimmingham, Annie E.
Tyler. Elizabeth Belle

I'chtman. Lucy T.
LHImer, William
Ullmer, Belle (Mrs. W.)
T.rilmer, Vivian
Ullmer, Wm. Malcolm
L^llmer, John M.

Van Arsdale, William Henry

Van Arsdale, Martha Louise (Mrs. W.

H.)
Vance. Mary F. (Mrs. Joseph A.)
Vance, Dorothy
Vanderbergen, John
Vanderbergen, Ethel M. (Mrs. John)
Van Hook, Mrs. Loretta C.
Varney, Gorham C.
Varney. Caroline C. (Mrs. G. C.)
Vaughan, Richard
Viele, Helen Ferris
Viele, Edith Louise

Wachob, James T.

Waddle, Laura E. (Mrs. J. W.)

Wagner, Anna H.

Waldman. Walter

Wardrop, Walter

Wardrop, Alice A.

Wardrop, Jessie

Wardrop, Katie E.

Ware, Minnie A. (Mrs. E. C.)

Ware. Ralph

\\'are, Walter

^^'are. Robert R. I

Warndorf, Gladys (Mrs. C. B.)

Warndorf, Erwin

Warner, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. L.)

Watennan. Sabina (Mrs. C. E.)

Watson, Inez Waite (Mrs. C. A.)

Watson, Harold B.

Webb, Susan E. (Mrs. R. C.)

Webb, Mary Blanche

Weld, Herbert W.

Weld, Frances A. (Mrs. H. W.)

Welling. Charlotte P. (Mrs. J. C.)

^\'elling. John Paul

West, James J.

West, Ida Bell (Mrs. J. J.)

Wheeler, Jessie W. (Mrs. R. M.)

Wheeler. Florence B. (Mrs. Alan R.)

Wheeler. Lutie Mae (Mrs. A. W.)

A\'liiffen, Wilson Thomas

Whiffen, Eva S. (Mrs. W. T.)

Whiffen, Marion Francis

Whitehead, Helen

Whitehead. Laui-u

Whitehead, Vara

Whitfield, Minnie G. (Mrs. Fred)

Whitfield. Alexander Gordon

MHiitfield. Ruth

Wilcox, Guy Maurice

Wilcox. Lillian Spencer (Mrs. G. M.)

Wilkins, David ^V.

Wilkins, Harold B.

Williams, Florence M.

"Williamson. Mrs. Josephine B.

Williamson. Harold Long'

Wilson, Eloise Smith (Mrs. Jno. P.)

\A'ilson, Mrs. Anna E.

Wilson, Robert B. M.

216

Wilson. Sheldon H.

Wilson, George M.

Wintersmith, Cliarles B.

Wintersmith, Nettie M. (Mis. C. B.)

Wintersniitli. Flodele

Wood, Elizabeth D.

Wood, Jennie I^.

Wood, Frances L.

Wood, Jennie

Wood, H. E. R.

Wood, Frances V. (Mrs. H. E. R.)

Wood, Margaret Frances
Wood, Florence Angelina
Woodson, A. Virginia
Woodson, Elizabeth V.
Woodyard, Gilbert D.
Woi'ke, Mrs. I.iuy .1.
Wyman, Martha S.

Yeager, M. Gertrude

Zweigart, Frida

217

Index

Committees 10

Invitation 11

Program 13

Historical Address 29

Neighborhood Meeting 51

Young People's Society 64

Young People's Social Evening 67

Reception for the Ladies 77

Banquet 90

Communion Ser\'ice 115

Congregational Gathering 121

Bible School 149

The Church for the Future 163

Fellowship Meeting 181

First Manual, 1873 195

Present Manual, 1910 203

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